"There
are numberless energy rays in the Universe...All rays and spirits
come from the subtle nature of the Universe... The interwoven energy
net influences the lives of individual human beings, whole societies
and entire races."
- Lau Tzu, 500 B.C. |
Dark
matter is strange stuff. It's all around you but you can't see it.
It's whistling by your ears but you can't hear it. It is arguably
the most important material in the Universe. How can scientists,
after so many centuries, still know so little about the workings
of the cosmos?
- James Trefil, Smithsonian,
June '93 |
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If
it moves, It moves not.
It is far, and it is near.
It is within all this.
It is outside all this.
-The Upanishads of
Hinduism, 1500 BC
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If
we ask 'does the position of the electron remain the same?'
we must say 'no'.
'does it change with time?'
we must say 'no'.
'is it at rest?'
we must say 'no'
'is it in motion?'
we must say 'no'
- Robert Oppenhemier 1954
A.D.
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A
truly good physician can cure the early stages of any disease with
food.
- Sun Su Mo, 700 A.D. |
Let food
be thy medicine.
- Hypocrites,
400 B.C.
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The
natural laws are not forces external to things, but represent the
harmony of movement immanent in them.
- I Ching |
Contraria
sunt Complimenta
(Opposites are complementary)
- Niels Bohr,
Coat of Arms
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Yin
and Yang are opposite like heaven and earth, yet at the same time
complimentary like day and night.
- Zhu Xi, 1200 A.D. |
The
quantum field exists always and everywhere. It is the void out of
which the proton creates the pi-mesons. The being and fading of
particles are merely forms of motion of the field.
- W. Thirring, 1968 |