"Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?" (Richard Feynman, Chap. 1, p. 9).

"Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself outside the ordinary range of what are called statistics." (Stephen Spender, Chap. 2, p. 33).

"The result of a mathematical development should be continuously checked against one's own intuition about what constitutes reasonable biological behavior." (Harvey J. Gold, Chap. 3, p. 57).

"And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill." (Wallace Stevens, Chap. 4, p. 81).

"Big whorls have little whorls which feed on their velocity, and little whorls have lesser whorls and so on to viscosity." (Lewis F. Richardson, Chap. 5, p. 119).

"The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning." (Dr. Faustus...