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Richard Feynman • "Seeking New Laws"
First, there may be situations where nature has arranged, or we arrange nature, to be simple and to have so few parts that we can predict exactly what will happen, and thus we can check how our rules work.
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, • Six Easy Pieces
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visakan veerasamy • Article
Prigogine realized that although Boltzmann’s theory was correct, it did not apply to what we observe on Earth because our planet is an out-of-equilibrium pocket inside a larger system—the universe—that is moving toward equilibrium.
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
So there are two competing effects, which pull in opposite directions. To cancel the field disturbance accurately and minimize that energy cost, Nature wants to localize the antiquark on the quark. But to minimize the quantum-mechanical cost of localizing a position, Nature wants to let the antiquark wander a bit.
Frank Wilczek • The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
realism, or a “realist empiricism.”117
