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Jim Al-Khalili Biography

Jameel Sadik Al-Khalili OBE FInstP (born 20 September 1962) is a British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey. He is a regular broadcaster and presenter of science programmes on BBC radio and television, and is a frequent commentator about science in other British media.

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I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.

Atheist, Comfortable, Like, Probably, Say

Time doesn't flow at the same rate for everyone. You can change time. You can slow it down, you can speed it up.

Change, Flow, Rate, Speed, Time

However far apart we pull two entagled particles, they remain 'connected' through their common wavelength function. Their fates remain intertwined until a measurement is made on one of them, collapsing their common wavelength function.

Apart, Common, Fate, Intertwined, Two, Wavelength

In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.

Book, Islamic, Years

If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the laws of probability maintain that my very existence is miraculous. But then after however many decades, less than a hundred years, they disburse and I cease to be. So while they're all congregated and coordinated to make me, then-and I speak her on behalf of all those trillions of atoms-I should really make the most of things.

Atheist, Disburse, Hundred, Law, Things, Years

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

Christian, Ended, Mother, Religious, Son

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

Achievement, Allow, Our World, Thinking, Understand

I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.

Coffee, Drink, Europe, Grateful, Mention, Muslim

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.

Beliefs, Ears, Light, Religious, Say, Views

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