Sublime

search for always newer ways to conceive the world. Its strength lies not in the certainties it reaches but in a radical awareness of the vastness of our ignorance. This awareness allows us to keep questioning our own knowledge, and, thus, to continue learning. Therefore the scientific quest for knowledge is not nourished by certainty, it is nouris

Tout ce qui existe dans l’univers est le fruit du hasard et de la nécessité. Démocrite

First, we must accept that the world may not conform to our direct experience and to our long-held image of it, that things may be other than they seem and from the way everybody has always thought they are. We must let go of an image of the world that is familiar to us.

abiogenesis is reconceptualized as a thermodynamic event that opened up new energy flow channels on Earth to facilitate entropy production. And as these channels emerged and expanded to relieve thermodynamic pressure, the increased energy flow stimulated further chemical and biological self-organization, eventually giving rise to the interconnected

The apparent determinism of the macroscopic world is due only to the fact that the microscopic randomness cancels out on average, leaving only fluctuations too minute for us to perceive in everyday life.

“Tradition” is nothing else than the codified thinking of human beings who lived at times when ignorance was even greater than ours.