Excellent book on the concept of time
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:37 am
Cheers, just had a quick glance at the intro and it certainly starts well, mentions motion and how little we know!!lizard69 wrote:http://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/upl ... luence.pdf
I will add this to my substantial "to read" list... it seems already that it could get me thinking of different angles on things, which I always like.The whole world of six dimensions is filled with His bounty: wheresoever thou lookest, it is making Him known.
JALLALEDIN RUMI: THE MATHNAWI, BOOK III (VERSE 3108)
Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid
with patines of bright gold:
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in
his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the youngeyes
Cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls.
SHAKESPEARE: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (ACT. V, SCENE l)
All the progress obtained by our cerebral effort consists in the ascertaining of material facts by ridiculously imperfect instruments, which make up in a certain degree however for the inefficiency of our organs. Every twenty years some unhappy enquirer, who generally dies in the attempt, discovers that the atmosphere contains a gas hitherto unknown, that an imponderable, inexplicable, unqualifiable force can be obtained by rubbing a piece of wax on cloth; that among the innumerable unknown stars, there is one that has not yet been noticed in the immediate vicinity of another which has ... Well, what about it?
Our diseases are due to microbes? Very well. But where do those microbes come from? And what about their diseases? And the suns, whence do they come?
We know nothing, we understand nothing, we can do nothing, we guess nothing. We are shut up, imprisoned in ourselves ...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT: NOTEBOOK, APRIL 7, l888
