April 18, 2003
Nature Takes Only Tiny Steps but Still Surpasses Our Reckoning
It has been said that for every complex question there is an answer that is simple, satisfying, and ... wrong. One of the simplest and most satisfying ways of understanding the world is to see it as composed of clear-cut discontinuities. And, sure enough, that is usually wrong.
People seem to gravitate toward dichotomous propositions: up/down, in/out, black/ white, good/bad, right/wrong, cowboys/Indians, the saved versus the damned, God versus the Devil, "You're either with us or
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