· Quotations
I hate quotations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
· My own quotation
We are the Neanderthals of the future.
Concerning
the idea that we will have soon a theory of everything (TOE or
probably better TOY) as Hawking and other claim and that the end of
Science will soon be reached where nothing really important can be
found.
·Vox populi vox Rindvieh
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in
England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But
after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and
it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is
a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a
communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice the people can always be
brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to
do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in any country.
Hermann
Göring (1893-1946) at the
Nürnberger Trials
·Religion and Science
When
the question is asked what we are to believe in regard to religion,
it is not necessary to probe into the nature of things as was done by
those whom the Greeks call physici. It is enough for the Christians
to believe that the only cause of all created things - whether
heavenly or earthly - is the goodness of the creator, the one true
God.
St. Augustine (354-430)
(City of God, A.D. 415)
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand
Russell
Napoleon: How is it that, although you say so much about the
Universe, you say nothing about its Creator?
Laplace: No, Sire, I
had no need of that hypothesis.
Lagrange: Ah, but it is such a
good hypothesis: it explains so many things!
Laplace: Indeed,
Sire, Monsieur Lagrange has, with his usual sagacity, put his finger
on the precise difficulty with the hypothesis:
it explains
everything, but predicts nothing.
Conversation
between Laplace and Lagrange mediated by Napoleon, DeMorgan's Budget
of Paradoxes
·Science and prediction
It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future.
Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
Anyone who expects a
source of power from tranformations of atoms is taking
moonshine.
Lord Ernest
Rutherford in 1927
· Planning and decision
Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to
see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there.
Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be
clear or intuitive.
Donald Rumsfeld
Dont fight a problem, decide it.
Gen.
George Catlett. Marshall, in 1942
(1880-1959)
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is
indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969)
· Discovery
If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
Heraclit (535-475 B.C.)
The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to
think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961).Compare
this to: Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none
exist, Thomas Disch
If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of
giants.
Newton,
Isaac (1643-1727) or is it more exact “If I have
seen farther than Descartes, it is because I have stood on the
shoulders of giants” a reply to Robert Hook?
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called
research, would it?
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
A deep truth is a
truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is
also true.
Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
in Rees, Martin, Remo Ruffini, and John Archibald Wheeler. 1974.
Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Cosmology: An Introduction to
Current Research. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers,
p 297. For example, "viewing a thing from outside, considering
its relations of action and reaction with other things, it appears as
matter. Viewing it from inside, looking at its immediate character as
feeling, it appears as consciousness" (Peirce 1893:353 [1978].
"Man's Glassy Essence." In The Philosophy of Peirce:
Selected Writings. J. Buchler, ed. New York: AMS Press). And,
"although all inertial systems are equivalent, according to the
mechanics of Galileo and Newton as well as to that of Einstein's
special relativity, one can always find a privileged system defined
by the fact that from within it the observer sees an isotropic
expansion of the universe about him" (Cercignani 1998 Ludwig
Boltzmann, The Man Who Trusted Atoms. New York: Oxford University
Press. ).
Now since it is impossible that contradictories should be at the same
time true of the same thing, obviously contraries also cannot belong
at the same time to the same thing. If, then, it is impossible to
affirm and deny truly at the same time, it is also impossible that
contraries should belong to a subject at the same time, unless both
belong to it in particular relations, or one in a particular relation
and one without qualification. But on the other hand there cannot be
an intermediate between contradictories, but of one subject we must
either affirm or deny any one predicate.
Aristotle
(Metaphysics, Book IV, Chapters 6-7)
Given a definite state or quality A, a thing must either have it or
not - "Either A or not-A"
Aristotle
Third Law of Thought
The investigation of
the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this
is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth
adequately, while, on the other hand, we do not collectively fail,
but every one says something true about the nature of things, and
while individually we contribute little or nothing to the truth, by
the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.
Aristotle
(384-322) BC Metaphysics II, chapter 1
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich
Engels (1820-1895)
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank
Zappa (1940-1993)
Fundamental progress has
to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Whitehead,
Alfred North (1861 – 1947)
W.H. Auden and L.
Kronenberger The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press,
1966.
If your experiment needs
statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Rutherford,
Ernest (1871-1937) In N. T. J. Bailey the Mathematical
Approach to Biology and Medicine, New York: Wiley, 1967.
Hypotheses non fingo ( feign no hypotheses).
Newton,
Isaac (1642-1727),Principia
Mathematica.
Things should be made as simple
as possible, but not any simpler.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Archimedes, that he might
transport the entire globe from the place it occupied to another,
demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so, also, I shall
be entitled to entertain the highest expectations, if I am fortunate
enough to discover only one thing that is certain and indubitable.
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Meditations
On First Philosophy Meditation
II, 1641
Relating to Descartes, a famous
philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito
ergo sum --
whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of
human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: Cogito
cogito ergo cogito sum –
"I think that I think,
therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty
as any philosopher has yet made.
Ambrose
Bierce: The Enlarged Devil’s
Dictionary
I think. Therefore I am not a Christian K. Deschner
...it would be better for the true physics if there were no
mathematicians on earth.
Bernoulli,
Daniel In The Mathematical
Intelligencer, v. 13, no. 1, Winter 1991.
Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.
William
of Occam (1300-1439), Occam's Razor
Principle
Out of nothing I have created a strange new
universe.
Janos Bolyai (1802-1860),
in a letter to his father describing the discovery of non-Euclidean
geometry. He inherited an
interest in geometry and the theory of parallels from his father, who
nevertheless advised him to "shy away from it as if from lewd
intercourse" to preserve "peace of mind."
His
father, Farkas, was a college friend of the now famous Gauss, but
when he sent Janos' work to Gauss, Gauss replied that it was fine
work, but he could not praise it, for this would be self-praise,
since he had developed a similar theory years before. This
demoralized Janos so much that, while he continued to work on
mathematical problems, he published no more.
Nothing great was
ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
In some way
or the other, each one of us affects the course of history…a
self-educated Scottish mechanic once made a minor adjustment to a
steam pump and triggered the whole Industrial Revolution.
James
Burke talking about James Watt who
simply improved on Thomas Newcomen’s steam engine design, which
was on display at the museum in which Watt worked. The adjustment
Watt made meant that the engine needed much less coal to do the same
amount of work.
We are but cogwheels in the medium of the universe, and it is...an
unavoidable consequence of the laws governing that the pioneer who is
far in advance of his age is not understood and must suffer pain and
disappointment and be content with the higher reward which is
accorded to him by posterity.
Nikola
Tesla
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science,
measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet
it is the most precious thing we have
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
George
Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
· Religion
I don't think we're for anything we're just products of evolution.
You can say Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think
there's a purpose, but I'm anticipating a good lunch.
Dr.
James Watson (1928-)
The more a man is imbued with the
ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction
that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for
causes of a different nature.
For him neither the rule of human
nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural
events.
To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering
with the natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by
science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in
which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.
But
I am persuaded that such behaviour on the part of the representatives
of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal
For a
doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light but only
in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with
incalculable harm to human progress ....
If it is one of the
goals of religions to liberate mankind as far as possible from the
bondage of egocentric cravings, desires, and fears, scientific
reasoning can aid religion in another sense.
Although it is true
that it is the goal of science to discover (the) rules which permit
the association and foretelling of facts, this is not its only
aim.
It also seeks to reduce the connections discovered to the
smallest possible number of mutually independent conceptual elements.
It is in this striving after the rational unification of the
manifold that it encounters its greatest successes, even though it is
precisely this attempt which causes it to run the greatest risk of
falling a prey to illusion.
But whoever has undergone the intense
experience of successful advances made in this domain, is moved by
the profound reverence for the rationality made manifest in
existence.
By way of the understanding he achieves a far reaching
emancipation from the shackles of personal hopes and desires, and
thereby attains that humble attitude of mind toward the grandeur of
reason, incarnate in existence, and which, in its profoundest depths,
is inaccessible to man.
This attitude, however, appears to me to
be religious in the highest sense of the word.
And so it seems to
me that science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross
of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious
spiritualization of our understanding of life.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The
religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend
personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural
and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising
from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a
meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any
religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be
Buddhism.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
But if there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at
least some consolation in the research itself. Men and women are not
content to comfort themselves with tales of gods and giants, or to
confine their thoughts to the daily affairs of life; they also build
telescopes and satellites and accelerators, and sit at their desks
for endless hours working out the meaning of the data they gather.
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things
that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it
some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven
Weinberg The First Three Minutes.
In formulating his ethical system Aristotle
started with Plato's query: What is the end of life, the highest good
toward which a man can aspire? Reasoning inductively, Aristotle
showed that a man's highest aim is not merely to live, for that aim
he shares with the whole of nature. Nor is it to feel, for that is
shared with the animals. As man is the only being in the universe who
possesses a rational soul, Aristotle concluded that man's highest aim
is the activity of the soul in conformity with reason. Although Plato
taught that every man should concentrate upon the particular virtue
which was most necessary for him at his own stage of evolution, he
declared that Justice is the highest of all virtues, being inherent
in the soul itself. That idea is clarified by Mr. Judge's statement
that "all is soul and spirit ever evolving under the rule of law
(or Justice) which is inherent in the whole." Aristotle, on the
other hand, taught that the highest virtue is intellectual
contemplation.
I do not feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a
mysterious universe without any purpose, which it is as far as I can
tell. It does not frighten me.
Richard Feynman (From the book GENIUS by James
Gleick)
And the cause of everything is that which we call God. To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life. What am I? A part of the infinite. It is indeed in these words that the whole problem lies. The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart. Leo Tolstoy, 1879
· Computers
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says
something about human nature that the only form of life we have
created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own
image.
Stephen Hawking (1942-)
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill
Gates (1955-), in 1981 denies saying
this and the quote is likely a fabrication as the memory limit was
imposed by the hardware architecture not the software.
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Ken
Olson, president, chairman and founder
of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer.
Art is everything else we do." (1996)
Donald
Knuth (1938-)
Source: Foreward to the book A=B
·Fun
C. G. J. Jacobi's brother, M. H. Jacobi, had a
prodigious contemporary reputation as the founder of the fasionable
"science" of galvanoplasty. The great mathematician was
constantly being mistaken for M. H. Jacobi or even congratulated on
having such a famous sibling. Conscious of the lasting value of his
own work, C. G. J. found this tiresome. When a lady congratulated him
on having such a distinguished brother, he retorted, "Pardon me,
madame, but I am my brother."
C.
Fadiman, The Faber Book of Anecdotes,
Faber and Faber, 1985
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
Carl
Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while
working, when informed that his wife is dying
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on
I go into another room and read a good book.
Groucho
Marx (1895-1977)
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Pablo
Picasso (1881-1973)
Give
me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I
shall move the world.
Archimedes, (287-212)
BC. King
Hiero, who was absolutely astonished by the statement, asked him to
prove it. In the harbour was the Syracusia, a 55 meters long ship,
that had proved impossible to launch even by the combined efforts of
many men from Syracuse. Archimedes, who had been examining the
properties of levers and pulleys, built a machine that allowed him to
single-handedly move the ship, that included the complete crew, from
a distance away.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
Socrates
(469-399 B.C.)
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
Woody
Allen (1935-)
To be is to do. Socrates
To do is to
be. Aristotle
Do-Be-Do-Be-Do...
Sinatra
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of
great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Dante
Alighieri (1265-1321)
My advice to you is getting married: if you find a good wife you'll
be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
(469-399 B.C.)
Hofstadter's Law: It
always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account
Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter, Douglas
R. (1945 - ) Gödel, Escher, Bach 1979.
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every
day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick.
It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
Bill
Gates (1955-) Toward
a Spam-Free Future and Why
I Hate Spam
One evening Rutherford noticed a hard-working student in
his lab and asked him:
"Do you work in the mornings,
too?"
"Yes," proudly answered the student expecting
that he would be commended.
"But when do you think?"
asked amazed Rutherford.
I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a
thing -- a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process, an
integral function of the universe.
Buckminster
Fuller(1895-1983)
A
human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part
limited in time and space.
We experience ourselves, our thoughts
and feelings as something separate from the rest.
A kind of
optical delusion of consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of
prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to
free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty...
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking
if mankind is to survive
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
We are, each of us angels with only one wing;
and we can only fly by embracing one another
Luciano
De Crescenzo
The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is
the time.
Carl Sandberg
And thus spake Zarathustra unto the people:
It
is time for man to fix his goal. It is time for man to plant the germ
of his highest hope.
Still is his
soil rich enough for it. But that soil will one day be poor and
exhausted, and no lofty tree will any longer be able to grow thereon.
Alas! there cometh the time when man
will no longer launch the arrow of his longing beyond man—and
the string of his bow will have unlearned to whizz!
I
tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a
dancing star. I tell you: ye have still chaos in you.
Alas!
There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star.
Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no
longer despise himself.
Lo! I show
you THE LAST MAN.
“What is
love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?”—so
asketh the last man and blinketh
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900) Thus Spoke
Zarathustra, A Book for All and None (1883-85), is one of
Nietzsche's most famous works, and Nietzsche himself regarded it as
among his most significant. Thirty years after its initial
publication, 150000 copies of the work were printed by the German
government and issued as inspirational reading, along with the Bible,
to the young soldiers during WWI.
Plato was a bore.
Friedrich Nietzsche
in What I Owe to the Ancients. "I
am no man. I am dynamite", said Nietzsche, who studied theology
and piano before turning to philosophy. Nietzsche describes
himself as "a follower of the philosopher Dionysus" in Ecce
Homo, How One Becomes What One Is (October-November 1888) He
begins this fateful intellectual autobiography with three
eyebrow-raising sections entitled, "Why I Am So Wise", "Why
I Am So Clever" and "Why I Write Such Good Books".
Nietzsche concludes Ecce Homo with the section, "Why I Am
a Destiny". He claims that he is a destiny because he regards
his anti-moral truths as having the annihilating power of
intellectual dynamite; he expects them to topple the morality born of
sickness which he perceives to have been reigning within Western
culture for the last two thousand years. In this way, Nietzsche
expresses his hope that Dionysus, the god of life's exuberance, would
replace Jesus, the god of the heavenly otherworld, as the premier
cultural standard for future millennia. On the morning of January 3,
1889, while in Turin, Nietzsche experienced a mental breakdown which
left him an invalid, eleven years before an early death at 56. Upon
witnessing a horse being whipped by a coachman at the Piazza Carlo
Alberto, Nietzsche threw his arms around the horse's neck and
collapsed, never to return to full sanity.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo
Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Rutherford was happy to learn in 1908 that his
"investigation in regard to decay of elements and . . . the
chemistry of radioactive substances" had won him the Nobel
prize. But he was upset that it was not for work in physics but in
chemistry, which he saw as lesser discipline like many other
physcists. (At this time, research involving the elements was
considered chemistry, which is why Rutherford was given the Nobel
prize in that science.) In the customary speech given by each Nobel
prize winner he could not help but remark dryly that he had observed
many transformations in his radioactive work but never had seen one
quite so rapid as his own, from physicist to chemist.
B.
Cline, Men Who Made a New Physics, University of
Chicago, 1965
·
Other
When written in Chinese the word 'crisis' is composed of two
characters. One represents danger, and the other represents
opportunity.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to
conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,
even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can
move the world.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Six is a number
perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days;
rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days
because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if
the work of the six days did not exist.
St.
Augustine (354-430) The City of God.
Perfect numbers are those numbers that equal the sum of all their
divisors including 1 and excluding the number itself. 6
is perfect because it can be divided by 1,2,3 and their sum is also
6.
As
far as the Laws of Mathematics refer to Reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
Reality
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned
my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for
him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to
civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command,
senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently
I hate all this, how despicable an ignoble war is; I would rather be
torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my
conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act
of murder.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The lovers may also sit on the terrace of the palace or house, and enjoy the moonlight, and carry on an agreeable conversation. At this time, too, while the woman lies in his lap, with her face towards the moon, the citizen should show her the different planets, the morning star, the polar star, and the seven Rishis, or Great Bear. Kama Sutra
I asked my grand-father to give me an advice
and he told me:
reach whatever you can reach.
I asked him
again to give me a more difficult advice and he told me:
reach
whatever you can not reach!
Nikos
Kazantzakis, "Report to El-Greco"
· Rassistic (pro and contra)
If you see a Bulgarian on the street, beat him. He will know why.
A
venerable Russian adage
It [aviation] is a tool specially shaped for Western hands, a
scientific art which others only copy in a mediocre fashion, another
barrier between the teeming millions of Asia and the Grecian
inheritance of Europe, one of those priceless possessions which
permit the White race to live at all in a pressing sea of Yellow,
Black, and Brown.
Charles
Lindbergh, Aviation, Race and
Geography," Reader's Digest, November, 1939
Of course we are better than those damn Serbs.
Our alphabet has four more letters!
A
Montenegrin, interviewed in connection with an article about
Montenegro's efforts to separate from Serbia
Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam,
shelo asani ishah ..
Each
morning, when Orthodox and Conservative Jews say their daily
blessings, the men among them recite this prayer: "Blessed are
You, O Lord our God, Ruler of the Universe, Who did not make me a
woman." Another prayer praises God “shelo asani goy”,
for not making me a gentile. This negative statement implies that
there is something wrong with being a non-Jew but according to
discussions it has been changed to “she-asani Yisrael”
thanking God to be a Jew which can be considered to be proud to be a
Jew without saying that it is bad to be a non-Jew.
Is buddhism better? A prayer for example for women : “I wish
that she is a man in her next life”
If relativity is proved right the Germans will call me a German, the Swiss will call me a Swiss citizen, and the French will call me a great scientist. If relativity is proved wrong the French will call me a Swiss, the Swiss will call me a German, and the Germans will call me a Jew. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave nor free,
there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ
Jesus.
Paul,
Galatians
3:28, a Jew who probably also thanked before God that he is a men and
a Jew and not a slave until some day suddenly he changed his mind.
Interesting also how this relates to the fact that mainly men and not
women are priests and why Jesus has selected only
men as apostles and no woman. Because he was a realist
who knew that women at his time were not considered important?
·My
Favorite quotation
If
I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am
only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of
prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I
have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am
nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to
the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient,
love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it
keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices
with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes,
always perseveres. Love never fails.
But where there are
prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be
stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in
part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the
imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child,
I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man,
I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in
a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I
shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three
remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Paul
, 1 Corinthians 13 (What has the clanging
cymbal to do with ancient Greeks? St.
Paul: 1Corinthians,Ch.13 The use of tuned Helmholz resonators as
amplification in the ancient theaters. ) . Maybe Paul was inspired
from Plato's Cratylus: Cratylus:
I should say that he would be putting himself in motion to no
purpose; and that his words would be an unmeaning sound like the
noise of hammering at a brazen pot. Childhood's
End, the Mystery of Order
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