Experimental physics – hell, all of science – is about solving problems. However, you can’t solve them all at once. There’s always a larger, overarching question – the big target. But if you obsess on the sheer enormity of it, you lose focus. The key is to start small. Focus on solving problems you can answer. Build some dry ground to stand on. And after you’ve put in the work, and if you’re lucky, the mystery of the overarching question becomes knowable. Like stepping slowly back from a photomontage to witness the ultimate image revealing itself.
– from Dark Matter book by Blake Crouch
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I’ve always known, on a purely …
I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We’re all made of the same thing – the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.
– from Dark Matter book by Blake Crouch