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.

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.

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.