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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.

A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.