Murray Gell-Mann

The Quark
and the Jaguar

Prologue: An Encounter in the Jungle
Early light
Information and Crude Complexity
RANDomness
A Child Learning a Language
Bacteria Developing Drug Resistance
The Scientific Enterprise
The Power of Theory
What is Fundamental
Part II

THE QUANTUM UNIVERSE
Simplicity and Randomness in the Quantum Universe
A Contemporary View of Quantum Mechanics: Quantum Mechanics and the Classical Approximation
Quantum Mechanics and Flapdoodle
Quarks and All That: The Standard Model
Superstring Theory
Time's Arrows: Forward and Backward Time
Part III

SELECTION AND FITNESS
Selection at Work in Biological Evolution and Elsewhere
From Learning to Creative Thinking
Superstition and Skepticism
Adaptive and Maladaptive Schemata
Machines That Learn or Simulate Learning
Part IV

DIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Diversities Under Threat
Transition To a More Sustainable Word
Afterword

Index