Sublime

The entire history of knowledge has shown us that the world is not as it immediately appears to our eyes: there is something else beyond appearances.

Similarly, Darwin resolved a problem that was not a problem at all in nineteenth-century biology, because his contemporaries were convinced that they already knew the answer.

Science’s leaps forward are most often not solutions to well-established problems. They come from discovering that the problem was ill posed.

But his uncanny abilities to engage in the dialogue between experience and theory made him a prime example of how acute observations, fanatic curiosity, experimental testing, a willingness to question dogma, and the ability to discern patterns across disciplines can lead to great leaps in human understanding.

in a reality composed of physics and understood by the methods of science, where does mathematical certainty come from?

The uncompromising quest for truth is a spiritual journey, which can seldom remain within the confines of either religious or scientific establishments.

we should extend, deepen and spread the flow of information in the universe.

the arms of gravity do extend outward and reach out to everything in the Cosmos, shaping the Universe itself.