Monthly Archives: December 2008

Physics and Love 1

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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.

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Dear Mrs. Chown,

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Ignore your son’s attempts to teach you physics.

Physics isn’t the most important thing.

Love is.

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Best wishes,
Richard Feynman

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2008.12.31 Wednesday ACHK

Beauty 2

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To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature … If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

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— The Character of Physical Law (1965) Ch. 2, by Richard Feynman

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2008.12.31 Wednesday ACHK

Professor

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But now that we’ve come this far, being a professor (which means having the habit of not being able to stop talking at the right time), I cannot resist telling you something about the rest of physics.

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— p.130 Feynman’s QED: the strange theory of light and matter

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2008.12.26 Friday ACHK

情緒病

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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing.

The precise opposite is the case.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle–they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.

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— Alfred North Whitehead

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時常思考是一種壞習慣.

不要在毋須思考時思考.

— Translation by Me

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2008.12.25 Thursday copyright ACHK

Painting 2

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…, knowing it is the light that is driving me. I used to think I was the artist when I was painting. I now see, since my NDE, that I am only the brush, my life experiences are the paint, my life is the painting, and the world is the studio with love as the subject.

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— p.48 Lesson from the Light, by Kenneth Ring

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2008.12.19 Friday ACHK