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We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe . . . we are completely irrelevant.

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Lawrence M. Krauss
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: May 27
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