Science has now become strange and cheerful. Why 'strange'? Because now far from the common and average way of thinking (in this its 'strangeness', its estrangement from the average common sense), because, given the lesson that comes from Popper, Heisenberg and many others, it is now thought of as incapable of offering definitive truths, unlike what is commonly and illusorily thought.
But why also 'gay'? Because according to Nietzsche it is finally free from the tremendous weight of objective truth, measurable in a definitive way, free from the terrifying obsession of the orthotes, from the nightmare and the weight of 'absolute precision'. Joyful because she is free to attach importance to reasonable imagination in constructing hypotheses and conjectures. Joyful because it rediscovers the sense of mystery far beyond the repetitive and the usual daily, and admits the existence of the unpredictable (even if it never gives up trying to forecast - not prophecies - as probable or plausible). And here is the reason for this booklet, which intends to offer a quick survey of those salient moments of the intellectual path through which scientific activity has now become gay and 'artistic'.

Mario Gamba, professor of history and philosophy in Borgomanero (No), has published various literary works for children and adolescents (in collaboration with Simone Fornara), and non-fiction works. For Giuliano Ladolfi Editore he published Melchisedec's book. Seven lessons on the world we live (2017) with speeches by Eugenio Borgna and Marco Feo, and Against the nartecofori (2018), in collaboration with Flavio Degasperis and Patrizia Valloggia.
Maurizio Antonio Medina has a degree in physics and teaches mathematics and physics in Borgomanero (No), in the same high school where he studied. For Giuliano Ladolfi Editore, he collaborated in the drafting of the collective volumes Andar-Oltre, Sguardi e Riflessi (2018), edited by Fabrizio Filiberti, and Xenia. The stranger and the guest (2019), edited by Mario Gamba. He currently collaborates with the S.E.I. of Turin.
Luca Monfrinotti, a graduate in philosophy, has devoted himself above all to the study of Husserlian phenomenology and to the "metaphilosophical" problem of knowledge. He deepened communication and rhetoric with a master's degree at the Vita-Salute S. Raffaele University. He also deals with painting, singing and composition of original pieces. For Giuliano Ladolfi Editore, he collaborated in the drafting of the collective volume Xenia. The stranger and the guest (2019), edited by Mario Gamba.