In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By reading any text of popular science we quickly regain the sense of the absurd, but this time it is a sentiment that can be held in our hands, born of tangible, demonstrable, almost consoling things. We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.Anonymous
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The quote above is by Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman. In his brilliant book "Surely You’re joking, Mr. Feynman!," he explains in great detail the common misconceptions people have about science. One of them is that scientists are unable to comprehend the true nature of the universe. This is not true at all, Feynman contends, but it can be very difficult for laypeople to fully understand the reasoning behind the science they read or hear about in the news.
Source: Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
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