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Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

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Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth

To battle disorder and allow information to grow, our universe has a few tricks up its sleeve. These tricks involve out-of-equilibrium systems, the accumulation of information in solids, and the ability of matter to compute. Together these three mechanisms contribute to the growth of information in small islands or pockets where information can gro

Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

This book is rooted in the concept of scientific determinism, which implies that the answer to question two is that there are no miracles, or exceptions to the laws of nature. We will, however, return to address in depth questions one and three, the issues of how the laws arose and whether they are the only possible laws.

Leonard Mlodinow • The Grand Design

Where Science and Miracles Meet

Alan Lightman theatlantic.com

Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?

Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem

Why You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral - The Now

Aaron Freeman thenow.co

I think of it as the difference between order and a different kind of order. Because there’s nothing chaotic in diversity. There’s nothing chaotic in a city with many different subcultures all interacting and going about their business. That is an order of its own. It’s just — it looks different from the suburbs.

‘The Ezra Klein Show’ • Opinion | A Legendary World Builder on Multiverses, Revolution and the ‘Souls’ of Cities

Given our puny knowledge, we can’t not accept living in the midst of mystery. It is precisely because mystery exists and is so great around us that those who claim to hold the keys to the mystery cannot be trusted.