Eric Chaisson Quotes

• The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.

  Eric Chaisson

  Creativity, Flirting, Unique

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.213, Columbia University Press

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• Preguntémonos primero qué es la vida. E inmediatamente nos quedamos perplejos.

  Eric Chaisson

  Firsts, What Is Life, Asks

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.250, Columbia University Press

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• Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic.

  Eric Chaisson

  Inspiración, Vida, Dios

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.254, Columbia University Press

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• Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.

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  Unique, Thinking, Special

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.84, Columbia University Press

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• Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.

  Eric Chaisson

  Long, Enough, Myth

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.418, Columbia University Press

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• Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.

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  Events, Essentials, Development

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.212, Columbia University Press

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• At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

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  Special, Groups, Mediocrity

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.90, Columbia University Press

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• Los investigadores sostienen que es de suma importancia desentrañar la naturaleza de los agujeros negros, no sea que algún día empecemos a venerarlos. Suena ridículo, pero segmentos enteros de la humanidad han venerado a menudo lo incognoscible, lo que no puede probarse experimentalmente. Ahora que lo pienso, muchos todavía lo hacen en la sociedad del siglo XXI.

  Eric Chaisson

  Thinking, Black, Twenties

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.101, Columbia University Press

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• Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

  Eric Chaisson

  Enough Time, Evolution, Given

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.435, Columbia University Press

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