"We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Anais Nin (1903 - 1977) For those of you not immediately ...

"Science is a second-order expression [of the world]. Science has not and never will have by its nature the same significance qua f...

"The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a gigabyte of data...which ...

"It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order; and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks a...

"When the first encounter with some object surprises us... this makes us wonder and be astonished... And since this can happen befo...

"There is a universal flux that cannot be defined explicitly but which can be known only implicitly, as indicated by the explicitly...

"Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil! Retrieve the utter tranquility of the mind from which you issued. Althou...

"Think of such civilizations, far back in time against the fading afterglow of creation, masters of a universe so young that life as...

"My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questi...

"When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its sim...