Ian Stewart

Most information doesn__ constitute a story. Think of a telephone directory: lots of information, strong cast, but a bit weak on narrative. What counts in a story is its meaning. And that__ a very different concept from information.

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates.