"In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I’m still absorbing its teachings." ― Rudy Rucker Topic(s): Change More From Rudy Rucker "If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur." "One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments." "Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens." More In Change "The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it."― Mike Huckabee "Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."― John Henry Newman "There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change."― Robert Louis Stevenson