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

by Carlo Rovelli

Science is not reliable because it provides certainty. It is reliable because it provides us with the best answers we have at present.

the scientific spirit distrusts whoever claims to be the one having ultimate answers, or privileged access to Truth.

There are some who prefer to believe in a story just because it was believed by the tribe’s ancestors rather than bravely to accept uncertainty.

As Dante’s Ulysses reminds his companions, we are not made ‘to live like brutes, but to seek virtue and knowledge’.