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

The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

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

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

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