Everything That Is Not Forbidden Is Compulsory.

The Persistence Of Erroneous Beliefs Exacerbates The Widespread Anachronistic Failure To Recognize The Urgent Problems That Face Humanity On This Planet.

One Thing That Makes The Adventure Of Working In Our Field Particularly Rewarding, Especially In Attempting To Improve The Theory, Is That... A Chief Criterion For The Selection Of A Correct Hypothesis... Seems To Be The Criterion Of Beauty, Simplicity, Or Elegance.

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.

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.

Our Planet Doesn't Seem To Be The Result Of Anything Very Special