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"Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex."
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"All that we have seen is something of a vast and intricate and lovely universe. There is no particular theological conclusion that comes out of an exercise such as the one we have just gone through. What is more, when we understand something of the astronomical dynamics, the evolution of worlds, we recognize that worlds are born and worlds die, they have lifetimes just as humans do, and therefore that there is a great deal of suffering and death in the cosmos if there is a great deal of life."

"Stars are only the rain of the Absolute."

"For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!"

"A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath."
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"In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program."

"If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe."

"I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex."

"There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important."

"In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances."

"Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody."

"Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs."
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