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Not complete without mention of Terry Pratchett: > The UU Professor of Anthropics had developed the Special and Inevitable Anthropic Principle, which was that
by bo1024 10y ago
Not complete without mention of Terry Pratchett:
> The UU Professor of Anthropics had developed the Special and Inevitable Anthropic Principle, which was that the entire reason for the existence of the universe was the eventual evolution of the UU Professor of Anthropics.
> But this was only a fomal statement of the theory which absolutely everyone, with only some minor details of a `Fill in name here’ nature, secretly believes to be true.
- jzl 10y agoOne of my favorite Terry Pratchett quotes is from a typical hilarious character of his pondering the nature of the universe: "Then there was the question of why the sun came out during the day instead of at night when it would be more useful."