Origine: Da A letter to the compiler T. Dimitrov, 24 maggio 2002; citato in Il premio Nobel Charles Townes: «credo in Dio anche grazie alla scienza» http://www.uccronline.it/2015/02/02/il-premio-nobel-charles-townes-credo-in-dio-anche-grazie-alla-scienza/, uccronline.it, 2 febbraio 2015.
Charles Hard Townes Frasi e Citazioni
Charles Hard Townes: Frasi in inglese
“It's a fantastically specialized universe, but how in the world did it happen?”
as quoted by Alvin Powell, in Laser's inventor predicts meeting of science, religion http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/06.16/05-laser.html, Harvard News Office, June 2005.
As quoted in Charles Townes, Inventor of the Laser, Nobel Laureate, Believer http://www.aleteia.org/en/technology/article/charles-townes-inventor-of-the-laser-nobel-laureate-believer-5848255028002816 (2015)