Once I Had Learnt My Twelve Times

Science Today Is Locked Into Paradigms. Every Avenue Is Blocked By Beliefs That Are Wrong, And If You Try To Get Anything Published By A Journal Today, You Will Run Against A Paradigm And The Editors Will Turn It Down

He Who Lives Among Dogs Must Learn To Pant.

A Commonsense Interpretation Of The Facts Suggests That A Superintellect Has Monkeyed With Physics, As Well As With Chemistry And Biology, And That There Are No Blind Forces Worth Speaking About In Nature. The Numbers One Calculates From The Facts Seem To Me So Overwhelming As To Put This Conclusion Almost Beyond Question.

Once We See, However, That The Probability Of Life Originating At Random Is So Utterly Minuscule As To Make It Absurd, It Becomes Sensible To Think That The Favorable Properties Of Physics, On Which Life Depends, Are In Every Respect Deliberate.... It Is, Therefore, Almost Inevitable That Our Own Measure Of Intelligence Must Reflect Higher Intelligence -even To The Limit Of God.

Here We Are In This Wholly Fantastic Universe With Scarcely A Clue As To Whether Our Existence Has Any Real Significance.