Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

Creative thought must always contain a random component.

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.