We have learned that space is curved but already foresee that this same space is woven from vibrating quantum grains.
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Scientific thinking explores and redraws the world, gradually offering us better and better images of it, teaching us to think in ever more effective ways. Science is a continual exploration of ways of thinking.
The incompleteness and the uncertainty of our knowledge, our precariousness, suspended over the abyss of the immensity of what we don’t know, does not render life meaningless: it makes it interesting and precious.
This new approach to knowledge works quickly and impressively. Within a matter of a few years, Anaximander understands that Earth floats in the sky and the sky continues beneath Earth; that rainwater comes from the evaporation of water on Earth; that the variety of substances in the world must be susceptible to being understood in terms of a single...
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