DICHOS/QUOTES
"When atoms are traveling straight down through empty space by their own weight, at quite indeterminate times and places, they swerve every so little from their course, just so much that you would call it a change of direction. If it were not for this swerve, everything would fall downwards through the abyss of space. No collision would take place and no impact of atom on atom would be created. Thus nature would never have created anything."
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"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
Albert Einstein (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
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"When atoms are traveling straight down through empty space by their own weight, at quite in determinate times and places, they swerve every so little from their course, just so much that you would call it a change of direction. It it were not for this swerve, everything would fall downwards through the abyss of space. No collision would take place and no impact of atom on atom would be created. Thus nature would never have created anything."
Lucretius 99bc-55bc (quoted in Manuel de Landa’s 1000 years of non-linear history)
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"Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory."
PW Bridgman, thank you Charles Frith!
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