Donald Hoffman

We can at least get pointers to that idea.

Our mathematics led to this pointer.

And I would never even gone there unless the mathematics took me there.

So that's – so I would say that it's just like the amateur –

astronomer with a pair of binoculars could be brighter than the guy with the James Webb Space Telescope.

But he's never going to beat the guy with the James Webb Space Telescope because the guy's got better tools.

And that's what science does for you.

You may be smarter than Einstein, but if you don't actually put yourself using the tools of mathematics and so forth, that genius will never actually flower in the sense of reaching all the potential implications of what it means.

And so that's why we do science the way we do it with mathematical precision because you

For two reasons.

If our ideas are good, we probably don't understand all their implications.

And so the math will come back and it'll be our teacher.

And second, certainly our ideas have their limits.

And it's hard for us to understand what the limits are.

And in good cases, the math will come back and tell us what those limits are.

So for example, Einstein's theory of gravity together with quantum field theory tell us 10 to the minus 33 centimeters and space time is over.

It has no operational meaning.

Who could have guessed?

Could you have guessed?

Could Einstein have guessed?