The reason of this is that if you look at the movement of the wateryour eye will not be able to fix on anything, but its action is as that of things seen in your shadow when you are walking; for if the eyeat-tempt to distinguish the nature of the shadow, the wisps of strawor other things contained in it appear of rapid movement and it seems that these are much more swift to flee from the said shadow than the shadow is to proceed.

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.