It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.