Things keep their secrets.

Heraclitus (trans. Brooks Haxton), Fragments

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<div><span style="font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">Other translations... </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">Nature loves to conceal Herself.</span><br></div> Nature likes to hide itself. <div>Physics likes to conceal itself. </div><div><br></div><div>Ancient Greek: </div> Φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεί. <div><br></div><div><div>Creative play: </div><div><br>Within the physics of the world, a secret. </div><div>Concealed in nature, a smiling secret. </div><div>The natural way of the world is concealed. </div></div>

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