from an Absolute. I believe that one of the greatest mistakes made by human beings is to want certainties when trying to understand something. The search for knowledge is not nourished by certainty: it is nourished by a radical absence of certainty.

sensations and thoughts in my head; in themselves they are empty entities, they do not exist. So far, so easy. But Nāgārjuna also suggests

We do not love in order to live: we live because we love.

The world that we observe is continuously interacting. It is a dense web of interactions.

This seems to me an attitude that renounces the arrogance of possessing knowledge, while keeping faith with reason and our capacity to learn. Science is not a Depository of Truth, it is based on the awareness that there are no Depositories of Truth.

The name ‘quantum theory’ comes, indeed, from ‘quanta’, which is to say ‘grains’. ‘Quantum’ phenomena reveal the granular aspect of the world, at a very small scale.

To think that human beings, their minds, their tools, or the numbers they use play any special role in the grammar of nature is nonsense.

This is the meaning of culture: an endless dialogue that enriches us by feeding on experiences, knowledge and, above all, exchanges.

The phenomenon from which the strangeness of quanta derives is called ‘quantum superposition’. A quantum superposition is when two contradictory properties are, in a certain sense, present together. An object could be here but at the same time elsewhere.