Wild-eyed, raving mystics (Dillard)
January 10th, 2007 | Published in History, Quotes, Science
In 1927 Werner Heisenberg pulled out the rug, and our whole understanding of the universe toppled and collapsed. For some reason it has not yet trickled down to the man on the street that some physicists now are a bunch of wild-eyed, raving mystics.
–Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), p. 202