Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation. - Roger Penrose

[S]ome of these regions may be... indistinguishable, for example the air in the room. We might have molecules in some other places. You might like to say we don't care where the individual molecules are. We just care about overall parameters, and so we lump together the systems which look very much the same. ...[L]et's say with regard to macroscopic parameters we lump them together, and so we have these things called course graining cells in the phase space... [Y]ou then say, well let's measure the volume of these regions... <math>V</math>... and the logarithm of that volume is the entropy. This is a marvelous formula due to Boltzmann. This [<math>k</math>] is Boltzmann's constant, the only thing in the formula that wasn't due to Boltzmann... This was named afterwards. I don't think he was particularly interested in constants...

What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? … The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!

One is left with the uneasy feeling that even if supersymmetry is actually false, as a feature of nature, and that accordingly no supersymmetry partners are ever found by the LHC or by any later more powerful accelerator, then the conclusion that some supersymmetry proponents might come to would not be that supersymmetry is false for the actual particles of nature, but merely that the level of supersymmetry breaking must be greater even that the level reached at that moment, and that a new even more powerful machine would be required to observe it!