8 Quotes by David Layzer

From a cosmic perspective, our world is just a fantastically improbable fragment of perfect chaos.

We are one species among millions on an undistinguished planet circling an undistinguished star that travels along an undistinguished orbit in an undistinguished galaxy.

Human societies have been trying to shape the behavior of their members for thousands of years. That is the main purpose of law, religion and education.

Speech, writing, music, painting and sculpture, dance, and the ordinary activities of everyday life are at once the most familiar and the most mysterious of all order-generating processes.

Scientific knowledge about the Universe could never be more than a tiny island in a vast sea of invincible ignorance.

A scientific picture of the world would be incomplete without an account of our own place in it.

To be fully human is to be able to make deliberate choices.

Human thought and action are the most prolific sources or order in the world as we know it.