“In its quest to discover how the patterns of reality are organised, th...” — Bob Hamilton Quote

“In its quest to discover how the patterns of reality are organised, the story of modern science hints at a picture of a set of Chinese puzzle boxes, each one more intricately structured and wondrous than the last. Every time the final box appears to have been reached, a key has been found which has opened up another, revealing a new universe even more breathtakingly improbable in its conception. We are now forced to suspect that, for human reason, there is no last box, that in some deeply mysterious, virtually unfathomable, self-reflective way, every time we open a still smaller box, we are actually being brought closer to the box with which we started, the box which contains our own conscious experience of the world. This is why no theory of knowledge, no epistemology, can ever escape being consumed by its own self-generated paradoxes. And this is why we must consider the universe to be irredeemably mystical.”

“Çayırlardan Google'a geçişimiz kuşkusuz epey şiddetli ve son derece verimsiz oldu, ama evrimin doğası da tam olarak böyledir. Bu dünyada devamlı olarak değişimler gerçekleşir ve hayat buna ya uyum sağlar ya da yok olur. Doğrusu, 66 milyon yıl önce devasa bir göktaşı Dünya gezegenini ıskalamış olsaydı insanlar muhtemelen evrimleşmezdi. Meksika Körfezi'ne çarpan ve küresel ateş fırtınalarına ve iklim değişikliğine yol açan bu uzay çöpü 100 milyon yıldan uzun bir süre boyunca gezegenimize hükmetmiş devasa avcıları ortadan kaldırmıştı.”

“When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?”

“Climate change is real, and global warming is accelerating. It is a special threat to our youth since they will be around for 30-50 more years. Without significant efforts to control global warming, its effects by then will be draconian.”

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

“After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?”