Paradox Quotes

“the domain of quantum world is so astonishingly strange that it even makes tales of alien abductions sound perfectly reasonable”
― Jim Al-Khalili, Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

“It has been argued that the spontaneous emergence of life on Earth would have been such a rare event that it is the equivalent of a strong wind blowing through a junkyard and, from the materials there, creating an entire jumbo jet, by accident. That, the argument goes on, is how likely it would be for organic molecules to fit together through chance alone in just the right combination to make even the most basic life forms—quite an amazing level of coincidence”
― Jim Al-Khalili, Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

“He who is most content with the least has the most,” and “I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.”
― Jim Al-Khalili, Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

“Their philosophy was that you should not always trust your senses and sense experience in order to understand the world, but should rely ultimately on logic and mathematics.”
― Jim Al-Khalili, Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

“The slowing down of time in high-speed travel is known as “time dilation” and is routinely taken into account in physics experiments, particularly those in which subatomic particles are accelerated in “atom smashers” such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva.”
― Jim Al-Khalili, Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics