Leonard’s Reviews > God and the New Physics > Status Update

On P.100 "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." Niels Bohr

On p. 94 "The importance of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem is that, by mixing subject and object, it demonstrates how, even at the fundamental level of logical analysis, self-reference can produce either paradox or indecision. ...one can never, even in principle, understand one's own mind completely."

p. 84 "The brain consists of billions of neurons, buzzing away, oblivious pf the overall plan... On the other hand we have thoughts, feelings, emotions, volitions and so on. This higher level, holistic, mental world is equally oblivious of the brain cells... But the fact that the lower level is ruled by logic need not contradict the fact that the upper mental level can be illogical and emotional."

On p.80 "...some physicist now think of space and time as derived, rather than primitive concepts. They believe that spacetime is built up out of subunits (not places or moments, but abstract entities) that would also embody quantum features."

P.59 "What is Life? To the physicist the two distinguishing features of living systems are complexity and organization. Even a simple single-celled organism, primitive as it is, displays an intricacy and fidelity unmatched by any product of human ingenuity."