20 Quotes by Tom Phillips

Our minds are capable of imagining concertos and cities and the theory of relativity into existence, and yet apparently incapable of deciding which type of crisps we want to buy at the shop without five minutes’ painful deliberation.

The number of things that we know for certain is pretty tiny compared to the number of things that we know we don’t know. The number of things that we don’t even know we don’t know is probably far bigger still, but unfortunately we don’t know for sure.