If you want to understand the universe, you can start by reading the greats: Feynman, Weinberg, Curie, Hofstadter, Kant, Spinoza, Turing, and all the brilliant scientists and philosophers who advanced the frontiers of human knowledge and on whose shoulders modern civilization stands.
But in the course of that journey you will also discover that, despite all this incredible progress, there are surprising limits to the things we know. We are still nowhere near answering some of the biggest questions, like the nature of time, consciousness, or the very fabric of reality.
