I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties; that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe.


Essay 400 — A Way of Thinking, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1994


I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties; that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as ...

I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties; that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as ...

I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties; that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as ...

I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties; that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as ...