Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of the science, and thus what appears to us as elegance of description really reflects the interconnectedness of Nature's laws at different levels.

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

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.