David Layzer > Quotes

“From a cosmic perspective, our world is just a fantastically improbable fragment of perfect chaos.”
― David Layzer, Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe

“Human societies have been trying to shape the behavior of their members for thousands of years. That is the main purpose of law, religion and education.”
― David Layzer, Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe

“Human thought and action are the most prolific sources or order in the world as we know it.”
― David Layzer, Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe

“To be fully human is to be able to make deliberate choices.”
― David Layzer, Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe

“We are one species among millions on an undistinguished planet circling an undistinguished star that travels along an undistinguished orbit in an undistinguished galaxy.”
― David Layzer, Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe

“Scientific knowledge about the Universe could never be more than a tiny island in a vast sea of invincible ignorance.”
― David Layzer, Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe

“Speech, writing, music, painting and sculpture, dance, and the ordinary activities of everyday life are at once the most familiar and the most mysterious of all order-generating processes.”
― David Layzer, Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe

“A scientific picture of the world would be incomplete without an account of our own place in it.”
― David Layzer, Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe