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.

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

Think how hard physics would be if particles could think

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.