Einstein said that the only incomprehensible thing about the universe was that it was comprehensible. But… — Gregory Benford
Einstein said that the only incomprehensible thing about the universe was that it was comprehensible. But resorting to God forgets what biology says—that our minds came out of the physical world, y’know, through evolution of early brain stems and neural systems to higher levels of complexity.
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