Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.


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Jones is a player we admire and like and we have been making lots of phone calls concerning him.
BILLY DAVIES
It's a great boost for Patrick to maybe get a chance to play in a World Cup.
BILLY DAVIES
Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted...
NICK DAVIES
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is le...
NORMAN DAVIES
Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In...
NORMAN DAVIES
In the 21st century, there will probably be a reflex against the disintegration of traditional Europ...
NORMAN DAVIES
A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.
NORMAN DAVIES
Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and t...
HOWARD DAVIES
I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without want...
RON DAVIES
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles l...
NORMAN DAVIES
It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good...
DAVE DAVIES
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a y...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
SAMUEL DAVIES
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
ROBERTSON DAVIES
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the ideal...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest sur...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Wisdom is a variable possession. Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog, fewer when pursued by ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
It is better to have loved and lost, than to have paid for it and not liked it at all.
GRAHAM DAVIES
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all su...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinar...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a...
DAVE DAVIES
So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably sa...
NORMAN DAVIES
I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
RAY DAVIES
In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybod...
NICK DAVIES
The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together ...
NICK DAVIES
The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, w...
NORMAN DAVIES
You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
LYNN DAVIES
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries wher...
NORMAN DAVIES
There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the...
LYNN DAVIES