Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

by Carlo Rovelli

The search for knowledge is not nourished by certainty: it is nourished by a radical distrust in certainty.

Ignorance can be scary. Out of fear, we can tell ourselves calming stories: up there beyond the stars, there is an enchanted garden, with a gentle father who will welcome us into his arms. It doesn’t matter if this is true, it is reassuring.