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A real magician makes no claim to violate physical laws; he only appears to do so. However, when pseudoscientists make claims to discover dramatic new phenomena, going beyond current physical theory, like telepathy or mental metal bending, then, like children, we must insist on seeing how the trick is done or as adults sit back and enjoy the entertainment. As
Gravity is the curvature of space.
The final story of randomness - utter chaos - has not yet been told to us by the mathematicians. It seems remarkable that something so fundamental for probability theory has not been defined and even more remarkable that we can go so far in mathematics lacking a definition. By simply assuming randomness exists, mathematicians assign elementary probabilities to events, and that is their starting point. But they have not captured chaos and looked it in the eye.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.
Nature knows nothing of imperfection; imperfection is a human perception of nature. Inasmuch as we are part of nature we are also perfect; it is our humanity that is imperfect. And, ironically, because of our capacity for imperfection and error we are free beings - a freedom that no stone or animal can enjoy. Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless. The God that plays dice has set us free.
Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
The most important questions of life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability.
Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless.
