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?
Now I know what the atom looks like.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'
To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
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