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Clifford Pickover [5]
Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical Book trilogy
Computer scientist; author of The Alien Iq Test; The Loom Of God

"A chimpanzee cannot understand Bessel functions or the theory of black holes. Human forebrains are a few ounces bigger than a chimp's, and we can ask many more questions than a chimp. Are there facets of the universe we can never know? Are there questions we can't ask?"

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