There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

Information consists of differences that make a difference.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

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