We Are Driven By The Usual Insatiable

Planets Are Too Dim To Be Detected With Existing Equipment, Far Away, Except In These Very Special Circumstances Where They're Seen By Their Gravitational Effect

Perhaps We See Equations As Simple Because They Are Easily Expressed In Terms Of Mathematical Notation Already Invented At An Earlier Stage Of Development Of The Science, And Thus What Appears To Us As Elegance Of Description Really Reflects The Interconnectedness Of Nature's Laws At Different Levels.

Bush Is A Nice Fellow Who Gives Very Good Parties. I Just Wish Someone Would Find Him A Better Job Than Running The Country.

What I Try To Do In The Book Is To Trace The Chain Of Relationships Running From Elementary Particles, Fundamental Building Blocks Of Matter Everywhere In The Universe, Such As Quarks, All The Way To Complex Entities, And In Particular Complex Adaptive System Like Jaguars.

What Is Especially Striking And Remarkable Is That In Fundamental Physics A Beautiful Or Elegant Theory Is More Likely To Be Right Than A Theory That Is Inelegant.