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• Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that…
• Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.
• Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage…
• The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could…
• The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.
• Think how hard physics would be if particles could think
• Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.
• What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right…
• The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.
• But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy…
• I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
• I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

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