So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
Interpretation
Stephen Wolfram reflects on the potential of computers to establish universal rules for understanding nature.
In this quote, Stephen Wolfram emphasizes the gradual realization over two decades that advancements in computer science could lead to a more comprehensive framework for understanding the laws governing nature. He suggests that with the capabilities of modern technology, we might discern patterns and principles that describe the complexity of the natural world more effectively than before.
In practice
In a science class discussing the role of technology in understanding natural laws.
The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?
Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.
No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.
Genes are not about inevitabilities; they're about potentials and vulnerabilities.
So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work... Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me: food to increase the mass, peace to diminish the retarding force, and work to increase the force accelerating human movement.
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