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From the Ted Talk by Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty, truth and ... physics?

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Now, why does stuff like that work? That's the question. Now, yeah, what do we mean by baufiuetl? That's one thing. I'll try to make that clear — partially clear. Why should it work, and is this something to do with human begins? I'll let you in on the answer to the last one that I offer, and that is, it has nothing to do with human beings. Somewhere in some other planet, ortiinbg some very dnaitst star, maybe in a another galaxy, there could well be entities that are at least as intelligent as we are, and are interested in science. It's not impossible; I think there probably are lots.

Open Cloze

Now, why does stuff like that work? That's the question. Now, yeah, what do we mean by _________? That's one thing. I'll try to make that clear — partially clear. Why should it work, and is this something to do with human ______? I'll let you in on the answer to the last one that I offer, and that is, it has nothing to do with human beings. Somewhere in some other planet, ________ some very _______ star, maybe in a another galaxy, there could well be entities that are at least as intelligent as we are, and are interested in science. It's not impossible; I think there probably are lots.

Solution

  1. orbiting
  2. beautiful
  3. beings
  4. distant

Original Text

Now, why does stuff like that work? That's the question. Now, yeah, what do we mean by beautiful? That's one thing. I'll try to make that clear — partially clear. Why should it work, and is this something to do with human beings? I'll let you in on the answer to the last one that I offer, and that is, it has nothing to do with human beings. Somewhere in some other planet, orbiting some very distant star, maybe in a another galaxy, there could well be entities that are at least as intelligent as we are, and are interested in science. It's not impossible; I think there probably are lots.

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Important Words

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