August 2, 2005
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Today’s birthday:
Peter O’Toole“What is it, Major Lawrence,
that attracts
you personallyto the desert?”
“It’s clean.”
Visible Mathematics,
continued –“The Garden of Eden is behind us
and there is no road
back to innocence;
we can only go forward.”– Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Earth Shine, p. xii“Beauty is the proper conformity
of the parts to one another
and to the whole.”– Werner Heisenberg,
“Die Bedeutung des Schönen
in der exakten Naturwissenschaft,”
address delivered to the
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts,
Munich, 9 Oct. 1970, reprinted in
Heisenberg’s Across the Frontiers,
translated by Peter Heath,
Harper & Row, 1974Related material:
(in Arabic, ka’b)
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