Here, in the vanguard, beyond the borders of knowledge, science becomes even more beautiful—incandescent in the forge of nascent ideas, of intuitions, of attempts. Of roads taken and then abandoned, of enthusiasms. In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined.
— Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Without natural science, we may also miss great beauty and understanding. In Unweaving the Rainbow (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998), Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins writes: After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must
... See moreAlexander Green • Beyond Wealth
Our inability to comprehend the inner workings of the universe may actually bring us more in tune with its infinitude. The magic is not in the analyzing or the understanding. The magic lives in the wonder of what we do not know.