Reality Is Not What It Seems

Perhaps if all the works of Democritus had survived, and nothing of Aristotle’s, the intellectual history of our civilization would have been better. (Location 396)

It is characteristic of genius to be aware of the limitations of its own findings, even in the case of such momentous outcomes as Newton’s discovery of the laws of mechanics and universal gravity. (Location 690)

To comprehend how light may be simultaneously an electromagnetic wave and a swarm of photons will require the entire construction of quantum mechanics. (Location 1271)