|
"This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They have always accepted the word of the Bible: In the beginning God created heaven and earth... [But] for the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; [and] as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries." - Robert Jastrow (God and the Astronomers, p.116) founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute, Director of the Mount Wilson Institute and its observatory. |
|
These four visual plays on words share a common theme: Duality is about a thing, its opposite, their integration, and the higher unity in which they originate. That is, 1 + 1 = 1, 2, or 3, depending on how you look at it. |
|
Read more...
|
|
"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." - Mahatma Gandhi |
|
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith |
|
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” - Siddharta Gautama |
|
"It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity." – William Ellery Channing |
|
Read more...
|
|
"We know that the difference between a heliocentric theory and a geocentric theory is one of relative motion only, and that such a difference has no physical significance." - Sir Fred Hoyle in Astronomy and Cosmology, 1975, p. 416. |
|
"How can it be that mathematics, being after all product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?" - Albert Einstein |
|
Read more...
|
?העבר אין, והעתיד עדיין, וההוה כהרף עין, דאגה מניין
The past is gone, the future is blurry, The present is a blink of an eye, So how could you worry? - Anonymous |
|
Read more...
|
|
For me, as it undoubtedly was for most of my generation, the philosophy of meaninglessness was an instrument of liberation from a certain moral system. We were opposed to morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. - Authour Aldous Huxley, in Confessions |
|
|
Worldly Wisdom 
