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.

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