Anthropic Principle Quotes:

A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.

- Frank J. Tipler

topic: Intelligent, People, Understanding, Intelligent Machines, Metallic

Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in; fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well! It must have been made to have me in it!

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.130, Del Rey

topic: Witty, Morning, Thinking, Subtle Atheist, Anthropic Principle

And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Giving, Intuition, Needs, Anthropic Principle

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

- Frank Wilczek

topic: Religion, Would Be, Answers, Faith And Reason, Anthropic Principle

As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in and so providentially crafted the cosmos for our benefit?

- George Greenstein

source: George Greenstein (1988). “The symbiotic universe: life and mind in the cosmos”

topic: Agency, Cosmos, Benefits, Evidence Of God, Supreme Being

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

- Fred Hoyle

source: "The Universe: Past and Present Reflections". "Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics", volume 20, p. 16, September 1982.

topic: Science, If There Is A God, Common Sense, Evidence Of God, Apologetic

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.

- Fred Hoyle

topic: Numbers, Religion, Facts, Theism, Science Religion

It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.

- Allan Sandage

topic: World, Mystery, Complicated, Concluding, Anthropic Principle

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

- Francis Crick

source: "Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature". Book by Francis Crick, 1981.

topic: Men, Miracle, Honest, Origin Of Man, Evolution Of Life

There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

- Paul Davies

topic: Powerful, Numbers, Design, Evidence Of God, God Is There

When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it.

- John Polkinghorne

source: "Science Finds God". www.washingtonpost.com. July 20, 1998.

topic: Ideas, Law, Purpose, Conspiring, Anthropic Principle

Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we exist, we have to be in the kind of universe capable of giving rise to us. That in itself is, I think, unsatisfying, and as John Lennox rightly says, some physicists solve that by the multiverse idea-the idea that our universe is just one of many universes.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Giving, Multiverse, Anthropic Principle

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

- Paul Davies

topic: Names, Humanity, Principles, Anthropic Principle

To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.

- Deepak Chopra

source: "Intelligent Design Without the Bible". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2005.

topic: Christian, Principles, Theory, Anthropic Principle