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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Well, science and religion are not …
Well, science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world for both.
– from Origin book by Dan Brown