An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Our understanding of the world is built up of innumerable layers. Each layer is worth exploring, as long as we do not forget that it is one of many. Knowing all there is to be known about one layer — a most unlikely event — would not teach us much about the rest. The integration of the enormous number of bits of information and the resulting vision... See more
The Marginalian • Pioneering Biochemist Erwin Chargaff on the Poetics of Curiosity, the Crucial Difference Between Understanding and Explanation, and What Makes a Scientist
As we expand our field of view, we come to realize that everything impacts everything else – and we find meaning in these interrelationships.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
I find it endlessly fascinating when I think that every species of animal may see and feel the world in a completely different way, so you could say there are hundreds of thousands of different worlds out there. And many of these worlds are waiting to be discovered, even in the latitudes where I live.
Peter Wohlleben • The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
One-world consciousness is for poets and dreamers, not normal people with busy lives. But it turns out that these writers, mystics, and scientists were not just musing about some utopian, make-believe world. Their statements reflect not just an aspirational dream, but a biological, psychological, and spiritual truth. Today, a mountain of scientific
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