A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Science is about unravelling nature.
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on.
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.