“It's a fantastically specialized universe, but how in the world did it happen?”

— Charles Hard Townes

as quoted by Alvin Powell, in Laser's inventor predicts meeting of science, religion http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/06.16/05-laser.html, Harvard News Office, June 2005.

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