Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.