The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine..

While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random..

Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort, it does ….

The great unexplored frontier is complexity ... I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity will become the ….

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that vo….

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity..

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being..

We surely stand at the threshold of a great adventure of the human spiritó a new synthesis of knowledge, a potential integration of art and science, ….

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event..

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possess….

Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science sho….

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science..

The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ….

What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme ….

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts..

A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as ….

As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darknes….

It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young, but never their actual birth, ….

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information..

The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, ….

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy..