He begins from the center and not from the fringe He imparts an understanding of the basic principles of the
art before going on to the meticulous details, and he refuses to break down the t ai chi movements into a
one-two-three drill so as to make the student into a robot The traditional way is to teach by rote, and to give
the impression that long periods of boredom are the most essential part of training In that way a student may go on for yeai s and years without ever getting the feel of what he is doing
Physical concepts (and Markets) are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility of the meaning of such a comparison
In Einstein's words:
. . . creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather
like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting point and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
How cool is that:) all you have everknown is rendered redundant! Einstein + Bohr killed Science's best held idea!
The mathematically formulated laws of quantum theory show clearly that our ordinary intuitive concepts cannot be unambiguously applied to the smallest particles All the words or concepts we use to describe ordinary physical objects, such as position, velocity, color, size, and so on, become indefinite and problematic if we trv to use them of elementary particles
Boxed world
The ability to predict the future based on a knowledge of the present and the laws of motion gave our ancestors a power they had never known However, these concepts carry within them a very dispiriting logic If the laws of nature determine the future of an event, then, given enough information, we could have predicted our present at some time in the past That time in the past also could have been predicted at a time
still earlier In short, if we are to accept the mechanistic determination of Newtonian physics—if the universe really is a great machine—then from the moment that the universe was created and set into motion, everything that was to happen in it already was determined According to this philosophy, we may seem to have a will of our own and the ability to alter the course of events in our lives, but we do not Everything, from the beginning of time, has been predetermined, including our illusion of having a free will The universe is a prerecorded tape playing itself out in the only way that it can The status of men is immeasurably more dismal than it was before the advent of science The Great Machine runs blindly on, and all things in it are but
cogs
art before going on to the meticulous details, and he refuses to break down the t ai chi movements into a
one-two-three drill so as to make the student into a robot The traditional way is to teach by rote, and to give
the impression that long periods of boredom are the most essential part of training In that way a student may go on for yeai s and years without ever getting the feel of what he is doing
Physical concepts (and Markets) are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility of the meaning of such a comparison
In Einstein's words:
. . . creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather
like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting point and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
How cool is that:) all you have everknown is rendered redundant! Einstein + Bohr killed Science's best held idea!
The mathematically formulated laws of quantum theory show clearly that our ordinary intuitive concepts cannot be unambiguously applied to the smallest particles All the words or concepts we use to describe ordinary physical objects, such as position, velocity, color, size, and so on, become indefinite and problematic if we trv to use them of elementary particles
Boxed world
The ability to predict the future based on a knowledge of the present and the laws of motion gave our ancestors a power they had never known However, these concepts carry within them a very dispiriting logic If the laws of nature determine the future of an event, then, given enough information, we could have predicted our present at some time in the past That time in the past also could have been predicted at a time
still earlier In short, if we are to accept the mechanistic determination of Newtonian physics—if the universe really is a great machine—then from the moment that the universe was created and set into motion, everything that was to happen in it already was determined According to this philosophy, we may seem to have a will of our own and the ability to alter the course of events in our lives, but we do not Everything, from the beginning of time, has been predetermined, including our illusion of having a free will The universe is a prerecorded tape playing itself out in the only way that it can The status of men is immeasurably more dismal than it was before the advent of science The Great Machine runs blindly on, and all things in it are but
cogs
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