" Past generations were most concerned with the material side of creation: How could something come from nothing? Cosmologists now recognize another, informational side of creation. Creation of a world entails above all information. The state of everything—everywhere—at every time—must be defined. The most economical way to specify such information is through a complexity-generating recursion of physical law. "

― William Poundstone , The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge