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Completely true to nature

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Completely true to nature!’ – what a lie: How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? The smallest bit of nature is infinite! And so he paints what he likes about it. And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Feeling at home

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernhard Shaw

Diagram

Friday, March 24th, 2006

A diagram is a picture, in which one is intended to perform inference about the thing pictured, by mentally following around the parts of the diagram.
James Franklin

Dissipative System

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

An example for a dissipative system is deadbeat oscillation or live.
Wikipedia about Dissipation

Media Technology

Monday, March 20th, 2006

I would be in favor of a use of media technology that gives it a chance to awaken us from an anthropocentric sleep, and to surprise us in a way that is totally intelligible and totally incommensurable at the same time.
Claus Pias

Done out of love

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Science

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan

Emptiness

Friday, March 17th, 2006

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.
Heinz R. Pagels

Beauty

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

For the harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Seeing

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

We see nothing till we truly understand it.
John Constable