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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description…
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The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the…
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A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are…
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The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to…
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The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in…
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a…
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The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.…
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Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized…
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If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500…
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Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and…
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Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical…
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A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another.…
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If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500…
— Fritjof Capra
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On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to…
— Jean Dieudonne
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The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.
— Cornell Capa
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It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it…
— Raymond Chandler
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The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether…
— Louis Althusser
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Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.
— Sergei Prokofiev
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Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form…
— Max Bill
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We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self.…
— Kenny Smith
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Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.
— Robert Heilbroner
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But it is certainly not possible to insist on one hand that the formalism is complete and to insist on the other…
— Karl Popper
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Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism.…
— George Edward Woodberry
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