"The point is that for our ancestors,..." - Quote by C S Lewis
The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
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“I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.”
“Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.”
“Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not--”
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“Things do not change; we change.”
“Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.”
“I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.”
More on Science
“Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.”
“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.”
“There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.”