The physicists succeeded magnificently, but in doing so, revealed the limitation of intuition, unaided by mathematics; an understanding of nature, they discovered, comes hard. The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality is not constructed to be easily grasped bythe human mind.
- EDWARD O WILSON, Consilience, The unity of knowledge
- EDWARD O WILSON, Consilience, The unity of knowledge
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