Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
"You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time."
"It's as if God had not designed reality with a line that was heavily scored but just dotted it with a faint outline."
"...where everything that exists is never stable and is nothing but a jump from one interaction to another."
"There is no such thing as a real void, one that is completely empty."
"...the world is a continuous, restless swarming of things, a continuous coming to light and disappearance of ephemeral entities."
"There is no longer space that 'contains' the world, and there is no longer time 'in which' events occur. There are only elementary processes wherein quanta of space and matter continually interact with one another."
"The illusion of space and time that continues around us is a blurred vision of this swarming of elementary processes..."
"Myths nourish science, and science nourishes myth. But the value of knowledge remains."
"All things are continually interacting with one another, and in doing so each bears the traces of that with which it has interacted..."
"There is nothing in us in violation of the natural behavior of things."
"We are the source of amazement in our own eyes."
"...we are not homeless beings suspended between two worlds, parts of but only partly belonging to nature, with a longing for something else. No: we are home."
"Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking."