Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through… - Jacob Bronowski

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.

The fact is that there are two traditions of explanation that march side by side in the ascent of man. One is the analysis of the physical structure of the world. The other is the study of the processes of life: their delicacy, their diversity, the wavering cycles from life to death in the individual and in the species. And these traditions do not come together until the theory of evolution; because until then there is a paradox which cannot be resolved, which cannot be begun, about life.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.