Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The universe exceeds human imagination in its complexity and strangeness beyond even our wildest mental constructs.
- In plain terms
- Reality is more strange than we can think.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept limits of human imagination.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What lies beyond imagination?
- How strange is reality?
Another view
Some aspects might be imaginable with expanded cognition.
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