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

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

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 void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

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.

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.

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

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