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.

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

The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration.

As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.

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.

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

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