“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”– Sir Arthur Eddington(1882-1944)
I found this as I was rummaging through my thoughts. Thoughts is the name of the nodes in the mind mapping software TheBrain. I think it was written after watching and marveling at the web of a spider on our porch.
Is my world view any better than that of the spider weaving its web? Is the universe so far more complicated than we can know that we should just content ourselves with weaving webs? Of course the difference, I think, is that the spider doesn’t ask this question. Or, perhaps it does and we don’t know it? Perhaps spiders, or mice, really are the intelligent species on earth; or perhaps the cockroach? How would I know; I only listen to other humans.
I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax. —Richard Feynman