November 22, 2002
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In memory of Arthur T. Winfree:
Time, Eternity, and Grace
Professor Arthur T. Winfree died on November 5, 2002.
He was the author of “The Geometry of Biological Time.”
- Charles Small (see the earlier entry “Hope of Heaven,” November 21):
“I’ve always been enthralled by the notion that Time is an illusion, a trick our minds play in an attempt to keep things separate, without any reality of its own. My experience suggests that this is literally true….”
- Kylie Minogue in my November 5 entry:
“Time disappears with Tequila.
It goes elastic, then vanishes.”
- Octavio Paz on his childhood in Mexico
(Nobel Prize lecture):
“All time, past or future, real or imaginary, was pure presence.”
- A colleague on Professor Winfree:
“He just wanted to get to the truth.”
- Octavio Paz, condensed and translated
Nobel Prize lecture:
“Gracias.”
