“Burak Cem Coşkun’s Pumpkin Dessert with Tahini in the Cloud Chamber is a strikingly unique addition to contemporary literature that successfully merges the precision of theoretical physics with the lyrical soul of Anatolian philosophy. As the fourth volume in his *Science and Poetry* series, the work functions less like a traditional poetry collection and more like a "meta-text" where the author, a physicist by training, uses concepts like de-Sitter space, neutrinos, and topological solution spaces to explore deeply human themes of memory, existence, and nature. The structure is intellectually ambitious, moving from the "Fine Tuning" of cosmic scales to "Transcendental" reflections that feel rooted in the Ionian tradition of natural philosophers like Thales and Anaximander. What makes the reading experience so natural is how the author anchors these abstract scientific metaphors in physical locations—from the "glacial austerity of Stockholm" to the "mist-veiled nights of Tartu"—and ends with a fascinating philosophical "postulate" regarding Randomly Organized Structural Entities (ROSE) that attempts to unify biophysics with astrophysics through a geometry-centered framework. It is an evocative read for anyone interested in the intersection of mythos and logos, successfully arguing that the language of the universe is not just mathematical, but inherently poetic.”
Source: Pumpkin Dessert with Tahini in the Cloud Chamber - Without Walnuts & Neutrinoless: Science & Poetry, Volume IV
“To a very great extent the term "science" is reserved for fields that do progress in obvious ways. Nowhere does this show more clearly than in the recurrent debates about whether one or another of the contemporary social sciences is a real science. These debates have parallels in the pre-paradigm periods of fields that are today unhesitatingly labeled science.”
Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“I lost all of my money on stock market because I thought I was a genius.”
Source: Diary: 6×9 size,100 pages
“Scientists are experts in the realm of the physical and observable, and becoming an expert in this realm requires ignoring its opposite—what isn’t physical and observable.”
“To me, an “expert” is synonymous with an “extremist” because the way to become an extremist is to think in absolute terms and be absolutely sure of them. In other words, it’s all ego. It’s all— “I know this to be true because I can perceive it with my senses or my instruments. Everything else is false.”
“Whatever we make, or invent, or build, is with us forever; we cannot throw it away. The methan and carbon diocide we put into the atmosphere will have effects, just like the nitrogen and phospate we flush into our rivers. They will end up impacting on human and more-than-human bodies, and lives. So the first question is 'should we be doing this?' That must replace the standard 20th-century question: 'can we make a profit from doing this?”
Source: Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics
“Not a recovery book. Not a self-help book. A reckoning.”
Source: The Quiet Con: What the Alcohol Industry Hopes You Never Figure Out
“The industry loves Bob. Bob is the business model.”
Source: The Quiet Con: What the Alcohol Industry Hopes You Never Figure Out
“The feeling of a free, personal, individual choice is the product.”
Source: The Quiet Con: What the Alcohol Industry Hopes You Never Figure Out
“Remember always, young man… that science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of this world have nothing left of all that is sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts and overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is marvelous. Yet the whole still stands steadfast before their eyes, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov