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

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.

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

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

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

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

In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us.