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

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

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

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.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

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.