The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 100 of 254
The nature of anything is its potential
‘The point is,’ she writes, ‘that no single environment can show the nature of anything, because to know the nature of anything (a woman, a lump of iron, x-rays, mosquitos or black holes) is to know its potential; that if it is in one environment it will appear or behave in one way; that if it is in another, it may be different.’