I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?

You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.

We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is "man-made", ergo artificial. But what one learns in chemistry is that Nature wrote all the rules of structuring; man does not invent chemical structuring rules; he only discovers the rules. All the chemist can do is find out what Nature permits, and any substances that are thus developed or discovered are inherently natural. It is very important to remember that.