“We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being.”

“But what we see and understand of the universe is not an infinity to drown in. It is a wide sea, but a finite one.”

“Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuiti...”

“In short, [Einstein's General Theory of Relativity] describes a colorful and amazing world where universes explode, space collapses into bottomless holes, time sags and slows near a planet,...”

“We are a species which is naturally moved by curiosity, the only one left of a group of species (the genus Homo) made up of a dozen equally curious species. The other species in the group ha...”

“Our moral values, our emotions, our loves are no less real for being part of nature, for being shared with the animal world, or fore being determined by the evolution that our species has un...”

“Our moral values, our emotions, our loves are no less real for being part of nature, for being shared with the animal world, or for being determined by the evolution which our species has un...”

“We think that our minds are all powerful but in reality they’ve evolved to do what we need to do, like hunt, eat and talk to one another. So the concepts in our head are designed to deal wit...”