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

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

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

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

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

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.

The great unexplored frontier is complexity ... I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity will become the economic, cultural, and political superpowers of the next century.