“Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.”

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The Professor and the Madman CD

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The meaning of everything

2003

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The Fracture Zone

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The Surgeon of Crowthorne

1998

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