dreams about science
Realizing that knowledge is provisional moves us further and further away from the dream of so many philosophies: finding a foundation to knowledge that can offer certainty.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
So I’m not worried about the limits that reality places on scientific discovery. The strictest limits are inside our own minds—the questions we never ask because they seem too obvious, the explanations we accept without sufficient evidence, the studies we never run because they’re too far outside the consensus