Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.

One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.