Fine Tuning Quotes:

Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word.

- George F. R. Ellis

source: "The Anthropic Principle: Laws and Environments". Article in "The Anthropic Principle: Proceedings of the Second Venice Conference on Cosmology and Philosophy", book edited by F. Bertola and U. Curi, Cambridge University Press, p. 30, 1988.

topic: Law, Design, Use, Fine Tuning

Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.

- Edward Robert Harrison

source: Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

topic: Views, Choices, Design, God Provides, Theism

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

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

The other way is the multiverse way. That says that maybe the universe we are in is one of a very large number of universes. The vast majority will not contain life because they have the wrong gravitational constant or the wrong this constant or that constant. But as the number of universes climbs, the odds mount that a tiny minority of universes will have the right fine-tuning.

- Richard Dawkins

source: Source: inters.org

topic: Numbers, Odds, Tuning, Multiverse, Fine Tuning

Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that it was simply too far-fetched to be credible. I realized that if I were to embrace Darwinism and its underlying premise of naturalism, I would have to believe that: 1. Nothing produces everything 2. Non-life produces life 3. Randomness produces fine-tuning 4. Chaos produces information 5. Unconsciousness produces consciousness 6. Non-reason produces reason....The central pillars of evolutionary theory quickly rotted away when exposed to scrutiny.

- Lee Strobel

source: Lee Strobel (2009). “The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God”, p.355, Harper Collins

topic: Life, Believe, Years, Naturalism, Randomness

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

- Freeman Dyson

source: Freeman J. Dyson (2016). “Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life”, p.357, World Scientific

topic: Science, Details, Architecture, Fine Tuning

It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

- Robert Jastrow

topic: Men, Views, Circumstances, Theism, Pampered

I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe that the observations about the orderliness of the physical universe, and the apparently exceptional fine-tuning of the conditions of the universe for the development of life suggest that an intelligent Creator is responsible.

- William Daniel Phillips

topic: Believe, Intelligent, Atheism, Orderliness, Fine Tuning

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

The bottom line is about the technique. The little things. Fine-tuning what we have to do. No matter who is out there, maybe theyre not going to be as good, quote-unquote, as the starters may be, but the bottom line for us is to make sure were doing the right things.

- Kurt Warner

topic: Technique, Tuning, Lines, Fine Tuning

The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

- Dennis Prager

topic: Numbers, Design, Enough Time, Fine Tuning

It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, 'Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'

- Henry F. Schaefer, III

topic: Atheist, Atheism, Tuning, Fine Tuning, Faculty Members

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.

- Kim Smith

source: Interview with V.R. Leavitt, www.goodreads.com. February 09, 2015.

topic: Writing, Rocks, Creative, Different Sides, Fine Tuning

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

- Michael Shermer

topic: Moving, Angel, Animal, Fine Tuning

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

Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.

- Mariella Frostrup

source: "Should I break up with my long-term friend?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2013.

topic: Car, Tuning, Occasional, Fine Tuning

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

- Kobe Bryant

topic: Games, Trying, Stuff, Fine Tuning

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

- Esther Duflo

topic: Technology, Tuning, Way, Social Policy, Fine Tuning

I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years and years fine-tuning, revising, editing, etc. What inspires me? Who knows. I am not inspired that much. That’s why I write long form fiction - I am not much of a short story writer. Ideas come seldom, but when a good one comes, I really stick to it and see it out. I’m a problem-solver - I've never thrown out an entire manuscript; I've always forced myself to repair it until it was a lovable thing again.

- Porochista Khakpour

source: "Beyond Diaspora: Porochista Khakpour". Interview with Roxanne Naseem Rashedi, lareviewofbooks.org. February 17, 2013.

topic: Writing, Editing, Years, Illiterate, Problem Solvers

Just movies in general. It's such a wonderful business as much as you feel, you are fine tuning your craft, every movie is a completely different challenge. Every fight sequence is different. Every action set piece. I enjoy that.

- Len Wiseman

source: "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

topic: Fighting, Movies In General, Challenges, Fine Tuning

Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.

- Julian Baggini

topic: Believe, Games, Use, Fine Tuning

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

- Ian Mcewan

topic: Powerful, Character, Fate, Fine Tuning

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

- Steve Martin

source: "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

topic: Writing, Skills, Credit, Fine Tuning, Writing Skills

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

- Alex Tabarrok

topic: Long, Tuning, Conservative, Chimera, Fine Tuning

Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Two, Years, Long, Long Shots, Fine Tuning

Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.

- James Surowiecki

source: "The Stimulus Strategy". www.newyorker.com. February 25, 2008.

topic: Differences, Making A Difference, Tasks, Fiscal Policy, Fine Tuning

I love that hip-hop can still provide jobs for niggas to get money and to put their crew on. I would never say that hip-hop is going down. It's cool, but it needs an adjustment. I think that hip-hop just needs a little fine-tuning.

- Redman

source: Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2007.

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Hip Hop, Fine Tuning