Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world.

It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it.

Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world.

There is nothing outside the universe.

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.