Sublime

This paradox of comprehension was articulated explicitly by a great physicist of an earlier age: “Sir Isaac Newton, when asked what he thought of the infatuations of the people, answered that he could calculate the motions of erratic bodies, but not the madness of a multitude” (quoted from The Church of England Quarterly Review, 1850).

O átomo fornece um princípio organizador para a física moderna — e nos atiça com a perspectiva de controlar matéria e energia. O gene fornece um princípio organizador para a biologia moderna — e nos atiça com a perspectiva de controlar nosso corpo, destino e futuro.

This is what physicist Max Planck (the father of quantum mechanics), Einstein, and others observed: No matter how much you know, there is an infinite amount of chance and randomness in the universe.