November 17, 2008

  • ART WARS and...

    Limits

    From the previous entry:

    "If it’s a seamless whole you want,
     pray to Apollo, who sets the limits
      within which such a work can exist."

    -- Margaret Atwood,
    author of Cat's Eye

    The 3x3 square

    Happy birthday
    to the late
    Eugene Wigner

    ... and a belated
    Merry Christmas
     to Paul Newman:

    Elke Sommer, former Erlangen Gymnasium student, in 'The Prize' with Paul Newman, released Christmas Day, 1963

    "The laws of nature permit us to foresee events on the basis of the knowledge of other events; the principles of invariance should permit us to establish new correlations between events, on the basis of the knowledge of established correlations between events. This is exactly what they do."

    -- Eugene Wigner, Nobel Prize Lecture, December 12, 1963