{
  "type": "book",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "The Eerie Silence",
  "slug": "the-eerie-silence",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-davies/the-eerie-silence",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-davies/the-eerie-silence.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-davies/the-eerie-silence.md",
  "author": {
    "name": "Paul Davies",
    "slug": "paul-davies",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-davies"
  },
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin/paul-davies/the-eerie-silence_978-01-4103-778-3.jpg",
  "quotes_count": 1,
  "quotes": [
    {
      "id": "543417b2-c7b5-4dcf-8647-5bf3dbab07f1",
      "slug": "to-a-physicist",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-davies/the-eerie-silence/to-a-physicist",
      "text": "To a physicist like me, life looks to be little short of magic: all those dumb molecules conspiring to achieve such clever things!",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 31,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "life",
          "slug": "life",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life"
        },
        {
          "name": "science",
          "slug": "science",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Davies#The_Eerie_Silence:_Renewing_Our_Search_for_Alien_Intelligence_(2010)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:56"
    }
  ]
}