The Laws Of Physics ... Seem To

Mathematics Is Not Something That You Find Lying Around In Your Back Yard. It's Produced By The Human Mind. Yet If We Ask Where Mathematics Works Best, It Is In Areas Like Particle Physics And Astrophysics, Areas Of Fundamental Science That Are Very, Very Far Removed From Everyday Affairs.

You've Got To Get Away From The Idea Cancer Is A Disease To Be Cured. It's Not A Disease Really. The Cancer Cell Is Your Own Body, Your Own Cells, Just Misbehaving And Going A Bit Wrong, And You Don't Have To Cure Cancer. You Don't Have To Get Rid Of All Those Cells. Most People Have Cancer Cells Swirling Around Inside Them All The Time And Mostly They Don't Do Any Harm, So What We Want To Do Is Prevent The Cancer From Gaining Control. We Just Want To Keep It In Check For Long Enough That People Die Of Something Else.

Scientists Have No Agreed Theory Of The Origin Of Life - Plenty Of Scenarios, Conjectures And Just-so Stories, But Nothing With Solid Experimental Support.

The Universe Contains Vastly More Order Than Earth-life Could Ever Demand. All Those Distant Galaxies, Irrelevant For Our Existence, Seem As Equally Well Ordered As Our Own.

The Burgeoning Field Of Computer Science Has Shifted Our View Of The Physical World From That Of A Collection Of Interacting Material Particles To One Of A Seething Network Of Information. In This Way Of Looking At Nature, The Laws Of Physics Are A Form Of Software, Or Algorithm, While The Material World-the Hardware-plays The Role Of A Gigantic Computer.