An effect demands a cause. #davidberlinski

Thoughts, memories, cravings--they are what? Crossing space and time effortlessly, the human #mind deliberates, reckons, and assesses.

If the universe represents a deity's free creation, it is the principles that explain his choice that are of interest and compel attention.

We do what we can; we ask the questions we can answer; and as for the rest, we face the illimitable, the unanswerable, the incomprehensible.

It is #God that makes the electrons follow His laws. #davidberlinski

If #nature is a book, it is not one easily read. #davidberlinski

We are acquainted with gravity by its effects; we understand gravity by means of its mathematical form. Beyond this, we understand nothing.

Men averse to flattery on principle are often unable to recognize it in practice. #davidberlinski

The urge to get to the bottom of things, if things have a bottom, is not unique to physicists. #davidberlinski

Evolution is a process. It has not been observed. The past has gone where the past inevitably goes. The future has not arrived.

But for well over 150 years, the dead have been remarkably diffident about confirming #Darwin's theory. #davidberlinski

Chance and complexity are countervailing forces; they work at cross-purposes. #davidberlinski

We never attribute the existence of a complex artifact to chance. And for obvious reasons. #davidberlinski

#Evolution wanders blindly, having forgotten where it has been, unsure of where it is going. #davidberlinski

My advice to college undergraduates is to read the Old Testament. #davidberlinski

String theory possesses every advantage except clarity, elegance, and a demonstrated connection with reality. #davidberlinski

The idea that humans are endowed w/ powers and properties not found in the animal kingdom arises from a simple imperative: Just look around.

There is always an odd and terrible disassociation between a life as it is lived and a life as it has been recorded.

By now we know, or at least suspect, that #materialism will not make it. #davidberlinski

Before you can ask 'Is Darwinism correct or not?' you have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it could be correct?'