They contain no matter, I continue, and have no energy and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people’s minds.
These false images are deflated so rapidly and completely you’re bound to be very discouraged very soon if you’ve derived your gumption from ego rather than Quality.
There’s kind of a glaring inconsistency here, that’s almost too obvious to dwell on. If they can’t stand physical discomfort and they can’t stand technology, they’ve got a little compromising to do. T...
The ultimate test is always your own serenity. If you don’t have this when you start and maintain it while you’re working you’re likely to build our personal problems right into the machine.
The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn’t separate from the rest of your existence.
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself. And what Phaedrus saw in the isolat...
That is impractical, but practicality isn’t the whole thing with gloves or with anything else.
Overall goals must be scaled down in importance and immediate goals must be scaled up.
On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.
Mathematical solutions are selected by the subliminal self on the basis of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and forms, of geometric elegance.
Lo que me gustaría hacer ahora es usar ese tiempo para conversar sobre algunas cosas que se me vienen a la mente. Vamos con tanta prisa la mayor parte del tiempo que nunca tenemos muchas oportunidades...
It’s been necessary since before the time of Socrates to reject the passions, the emotions, in order to free the rational mind for an understanding of nature’s order which was as yet unknown. Now it’s...
It’s an old split. Like the one between art and art history. One does it and the other talks about how it’s done and the talk about how it’s done never seems to match how one does it.
I suppose you could call that a personality. Each machine has its own, unique personality which probably could be defined as the intuitive sum total of everything you know and feel about it. This pers...
I had been seeing that shim in a kind of intellectual, rational, cerebral way in which the scientific properties of the metal were all that counted. John was going at it immediately and intuitively, g...
He’d no longer be a grade-motivated person. He’d be a knowledge-motivated person.
He discovered that the science he’d once thought of as the whole world of knowledge is only a branch of philosophy, which is far broader and far more general. The questions he had asked about infinite...
He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.
Cromwell’s statement, No one ever travels so high as he who knows not where he is going,
Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.