But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of natural science, as revealed in the study of particles and of the cosmos, is allied to the litheness of a merganser diving in a pure Swedish lake, or the grace of a dolphin leaving shining trails at night in the Gulf of California.

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.