From The End of Mr. Y. by Scarlett Thomas

...What if everyone is actually right? Aristotle and Plato; David and Goliath; Hobbes and Locke; Hitler and Gandhi; Tom and Jerry. Could that ever make sense? And then I think about my mother and I think that no, not everyone is right. To paraphrase the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, she wasn't even wrong. Maybe that's where human society is now, at the beginning of the 21st century: not ever wrong. The 19th century crowd were wrong, on the whole, but we're somehow doing worse than that. We're now living with the uncertainty principle and the incompleteness theorem and philosophers who say that the world has become a simulacrum - a copy without an original. We live in the world where nothing is real; a world of infinite closed systems, and the particles that could be doing anything you like (but probably aren't).

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;

God said "Let Newton be!" and all was light.

                                                     Alexander Pope

 

Июньские радуги

На планете Кота Бастиана 

Так много радуг,

Что он ткет из них одеяла

И плетет гамаки и качели.

И вообще, сквозь них

Он все смотрит на мир -

В самом деле?!...

Dolce Far Niente