"… survival, transmission, association,
a strong indifferent persistent order."
— Henry James in The Ambassadors
"You see, you can't please everyone,
so you've got to please yourself." — Rick Nelson
Friday, October 9, 2015
The Heisenberg Bedeutung
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Heisenberg on Beauty
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"… die Schönheit… [ist] die
"Beauty is the proper conformity |
This is not the meth-lab Heisenberg —
who also suggests a German saying:
. . . Gestaltung, Umgestaltung,
Des ewigen Sinnes ewige Unterhaltung . . . .
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Sunday, December 25, 2005
Sunday December 25, 2005
Eight is a Gate
(continued)
(continued)
Compare and contrast:
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"… die Schönheit… [ist] die
richtige Übereinstimmung
der Teile miteinander
und mit dem Ganzen."
"Beauty is the proper conformity
of the parts to one another
and to the whole."
— Werner Heisenberg,
"Die Bedeutung des Schönen
in der exakten Naturwissenschaft,"
address delivered to the
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts,
Munich, 9 Oct. 1970, reprinted in
Heisenberg's Across the Frontiers,
translated by Peter Heath,
Harper & Row, 1974
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Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Tuesday August 2, 2005
Today's birthday:
Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole
"What is it, Major Lawrence,
that attracts you personally
to the desert?"
"It's clean."
Visible Mathematics,
continued —
"The Garden of Eden is behind us
and there is no road
back to innocence;
we can only go forward."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Earth Shine, p. xii
"Beauty is the proper conformity
of the parts to one another
and to the whole."
of the parts to one another
and to the whole."
— Werner Heisenberg,
"Die Bedeutung des Schönen
in der exakten Naturwissenschaft,"
address delivered to the
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts,
Munich, 9 Oct. 1970, reprinted in
Heisenberg's Across the Frontiers,
translated by Peter Heath,
Harper & Row, 1974
Related material:
(in Arabic, ka'b)
and
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Wednesday May 18, 2005
“Beauty is the proper conformity
of the parts to one another
and to the whole.”
— Werner Heisenberg,
“Die Bedeutung des Schönen
in der exakten Naturwissenschaft,”
address delivered to the
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts,
Munich, 9 Oct. 1970, reprinted in
Heisenberg’s Across the Frontiers,
translated by Peter Heath,
Harper & Row, 1974
Related material:
The Eightfold Cube
of the parts to one another
and to the whole.”
— Werner Heisenberg,
“Die Bedeutung des Schönen
in der exakten Naturwissenschaft,”
address delivered to the
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts,
Munich, 9 Oct. 1970, reprinted in
Heisenberg’s Across the Frontiers,
translated by Peter Heath,
Harper & Row, 1974
Related material:
The Eightfold Cube
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