by Gil Friend | Mar 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
Jane found this at breakfast, from Adam Regn Arvidson In 1959 British novelist-scientist C.P. Snow called this dichotomy “The Two Cultures,” a phrase Loren Eiseley references in “The Illusion of the Two Cultures,” which appeared in The American Scholar in 1964. In his...
by Gil Friend | Feb 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12891-is-mathematical-pattern-the-theory-of-everything.html
by Gil Friend | Feb 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
If feedback loops are the basic unit in Universe, how can the variety of ways those loops can be arranged and juxtaposed give rise to the infinite forms of varied vitality and emergence?
by Gil Friend | Feb 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice. They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith. They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom. – Rav Kook
by Gil Friend | Feb 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
We are the land, and the water, and the grizzly bears, and the soil microbes. This is not a New Age statement. It is a medical statement, a scientific statement.” – Carolyn Raffensperger, executive director of the Science and Environmental Health...
by Gil Friend | Feb 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
No individual has what might be called a scientific view of the whole world, only of portions of it; and these, too, are always incomplete…. Those with the greatest reliance on science must take on faith both the knowledge they believe to be vested in other...
