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Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word "understanding."
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
The ultimate shape owes its genesis partly to an element of chance which in principle cannot be analysed further
The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.
Any concepts or words which have been formed in the past through the interplay between the world and ourselves are not really sharply defined with respect to their meaning: that is to say, we do not know exactly how far they will help us in finding our way in the world.
Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language. It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for, as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life, and these consist only of processes involving exceedingly large numbers of atoms. Furthermore, it is very difficult to modify our language so that it will be able to describe these atomic processes, for words can only describe things of which we can form mental pictures, and this ability, too, is a result of daily experience. Fortunately, mathematics is not subject to this limitation, and it has been possible to invent a mathematical scheme — the quantum theory — which seems entirely adequate for the treatment of atomic processes; for visualisation, however, we must content ourselves with two incomplete analogies — the wave picture and the corpuscular picture.
Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas— and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.
After these conversations with Tagore some of the ideas that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. That was a great help for me.
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
- Werner Heisenberg (Born December 5, 1901)
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To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.
- Theodore Zeldin
Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.
Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
- Walt Disney (Born December 5, 1901)
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
- Albert Camus
If you let go a little you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace. - Ajahn Cha
One day, He did not leave after kissing me.
- Hafiz
We are here on earth to help others. What the others are here for, I've no idea.
- W.H. Auden
Big results require big ambitions.
- Heraclitus
Peace is its own reward.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
- Wavy Gravy
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
- Virginia Woolf
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
- Albert Einstein
Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body sunk into that chair in the approach to midnight, a clock ticking at the threshold of awareness. All the endless detail of a solid and material world surrounding you. These things exist. They can be measured with a yardstick, a voltammeter, a weighing scale. These things are real. Then there's the mind, half-focused on the TV, the settee, the clock. This ghostly knot of memory, idea and feeling that we call ourself also exists, though not within the measurable world our science may describe. Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know. The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas. Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored. Before the Age of Reason was announced, humanity had polished strategies for interacting with the world of the imaginary and invisible: complicated magic-systems; sprawling pantheons of gods and spirits, images and names with which we labelled powerful inner forces so that we might better understand them. Intellect, Emotion and Unconscious Thought were made divinities or demons so that we, like Faust, might better know them; deal with them; become them. Ancient cultures did not worship idols. Their god-statues represented ideal states which, when meditated constantly upon, one might aspire to. Science proves there never was a mermaid, blue-skinned Krishna or a virgin birth in physical reality. Yet thought is real, and the domain of thought is the one place where gods inarguably exist, wielding tremendous power. If Aphrodite were a myth and Love only a concept, then would that negate the crimes and kindnesses and songs done in Love's name? If Christ were only ever fiction, a divine Idea, would this invalidate the social change inspired by that idea, make holy wars less terrible, or human betterment less real, less sacred? The world of ideas is in certain senses deeper, truer than reality; this solid television less significant than the Idea of television. Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.
- Alan Moore
The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.
- Sunzi
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
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Moonrise Through Mauna Kea's Shadow
Credit & Copyright:
Michael Connelley
(U. Hawaii)
Explanation:
How can the Moon rise through a mountain?
It cannot -- what was
photographed here is a
moonrise through the
shadow of a large
volcano.
The volcano is Mauna Kea,
Hawai'i,
USA,
a frequent spot for
spectacular
photographs
since
it
is
arguably
the
premier
observing
location
on
planet
Earth.
The Sun has just set in the
opposite direction,
behind the camera.
Additionally, the
Moon has just passed full
phase -- were it precisely at
full phase it would rise, possibly
eclipsed, at the very peak of the shadow.
Refraction of moonlight through the
Earth's atmosphere makes the
Moon appear slightly oval.
Cinder cones from old volcanic eruptions are visible
in the foreground.
Cloud tops below
Mauna Kea's summit
have unusually flat tops,
indicating a decrease in air moisture that frequently keeps the air unusually dry,
another attribute of this
stellar observing site.
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/dN2zOt
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