We know nothing
If I believe Protagoras there is nothing certain in the universe; if I believe Nausiphanes there is just the one certainty, that nothing is certain; if Parmenides, only one thing exists; if Zeno, not even one. Then what are we? The things that surround us, the things on which we live, what are they? Our whole universe is no more than a semblance of
... See moreSeneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
To want to know more than is sufficient is a form of intemperance.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
We cannot circumvent uncertainty, but we can learn to manage it — and maybe even embrace it. After all, ignorance is what motivates us to seek knowledge and construct stories about our experience. Entropy, in other words, is what makes us human.
We can’t keep track of the motion of all the air molecules in a room, so we take averages in the form of temperature and pressure. We progressively lose track of microscopic details as systems evolve into more probable states, and this relentless trend materializes as the flow of time. “The time of physics is, ultimately, the expression of our igno... See more
Zack Savitsky • What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine
“The time of physics is, ultimately, the expression of our ignorance of the world” Ignorance composes our reality.
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