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“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
“Buralarda kimseler okumuyormuş gibi yazmanın riskleri var, bir nevi delilik bu ama birine aniden ulaşıyor sözün:
Odasının ta içine.
Tam da ortasına kalbinin.
Ne büyülü...”
Source: Babam Beni Şahdamarımdan Öptü
“Burası hep dedikleri gibi, “saray arkası yolu” ve hiçbir şekilde "Çırağan Caddesi" adını hak etmiyor. Beşiktaş’tan Ortaköy’e uzanan ve trafiği her halükarda sıkışan bu yol, bir “cadde” değil, iki sıra ağacın arasına dökülmüş asfalt, ne kadar sağlam ve zengin yapılı olursa olsun, bir yolu cadde kılmıyor. Ki “cadde” dediğim, insanın kendini görünmez bir iktidarın şehrinde, geniş bir uzamda özgür ve yalnız hissedebileceği bir yer. Oysa bu yoldaki çok uluslu saray-otel işletmeleri, modern enderunlar, restore edilmiş dergâhlar, sosyete paşalarının toplantı merkezleri, son sarayın sözde kamulaştırılmış bahçesi ve eski saray çalışanlarının müştemilatları arasında insan kendisini “kul”laşmış, saraylıların esiri olmuş hissediyor.”
Source: İstanbul Sokakları
“Buraya geldikten kısa bir süre sonra, beynim hâlâ bu manastırı Avrupa'daki bir fabrika kadar verimli hale getirmek için yapılabileceklere dair planlarla vızır vızır işlerken, Swami V.ye, daha sonra da bizzat Mahanta Maharaj'a gidip tarihöncesinden kalma kullanışsız yöntemlerinden vazgeçmeleri gerektiğini saygılı ama kesin bir tavırla söyleme cüretini göstermiştim. Kumaş her yıkandığında çok fazla gerua boyasının aktığını, dolayısıyla giysilerin kısa sürede yeniden boyanması gerektiğini belirtmiştim. Bir kimya firmasıyla anlaşsaydık da bize hakikaten kalıcı ticari boya hazırlasalardı, o tür boyayı kullanmak hem daha hızlı hem de çok daha kolay olurdu, ayrıca böylece birörnek bir gerua tonu elde edilir ve çok daha uzun süre dayanırdı. Mahanta Maharaj bunu biraz eğlenceli bulmuş görünmüştü ama beni hor görmemişti. Bu değişikliği yapmanın ne anlamı olacağını sormuştu kibarca. Bir an için ona öfkelenecektim az daha, söylediklerimi dinlemediği hissine kapılmıştım. "Bu sayede zaman kazanırız da ondan, Maharaj" demiştim. O zaman Maharaj çok derin anlamlı felsefi bir söz söylemişim gibi ciddi ve düşünceli bir tavır takınmış, sonra "Ah evet, zaman" diye mırıldanmış ve ardından sessiz kalmıştı.”
Source: A Meeting by the River
“Burbank's power of love, reported Hall, "greater than any other, was a subtle kind of nourishment that made everything grow better and bear fruit more abundantly. Burbank explained to me that in all his experimentation he took plants into his confidence, asked them to help, and assured them that he held their small lives in deepest regard and affection." Helen Keller, deaf and blind, after a visit to Burbank, wrote in Out look for the Blind: "He has the rarest of gifts, the receptive spirit of a child. When plants talk to him, he listens. Only a wise child can understand the language of flowers and trees."
Her observation was particularly apt since all his life Burbank loved children. In his essay "Training of the Human Plant," later published as a book, he anticipated the more humane attitudes of a later day and shocked authoritarian parents by saying, "It is more important for a child to have a good nervous system than to try to 'force' it along the line of book knowledge at the expense of its spontaneity, its play. A child should learn through a medium of pleasure, not of pain. Most of the things that are really useful in later life come to the children through play and through association with nature."
Burbank, like other geniuses, realized that his successes came from having conserved the exuberance of a small boy and his wonder for everything around him. He told one of his biographers: 'Tm almost seventy-seven, and I can still go over a gate or run a foot race or kick the chandelier. That's because my body is no older than my mind-and my mind is adolescent. It has never grown up and I hope it never will." It was this quality which so puzzled the dour scientists who looked askance at his power of creation and bedeviled audiences who expected him to be explicit as to how he produced so many horticultural wonders. Most of them were as disappointed as the members of the American Pomological Society, gathered to hear Burbank tell "all" during a lecture entitled "How to Produce New Fruits and Flowers," who sat agape as they heard him say:
In pursuing the study of any of the universal and everlasting laws of nature, whether relating to the life, growth, structure and movements of a giant planet, the tiniest plant or of the psychological movements of the human brain, some conditions are necessary before we can become one of nature's interpreters or the creator of any valuable work for the world.
Preconceived notions, dogmas and all personal prejudice and bias must be laid aside. Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive. Accepting these truths as suggested, wherever they may lead, then we have the whole universe in harmony with us. At last man has found a solid foundation for science, having discovered that he is part of a universe which is eternally unstable in form, eternally immutable in substance.”
Source: The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
“Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...”
“Burdened by nightmares and insomnia, numbed by painkillers and sleeping pills, we were no longer young. There was no longer anyone who would worry over us or shed tears over our pitiful lot. We even despised ourselves.”
Source: Human Acts
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”
“Burdened with my sins, I may be able to crawl toward the light, but it shall take an eternity.”
Source: Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
“Burdens are blessings inside out.”
“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
Source: Gone With The Wind: American Literature
“Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.”
“Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.”
“Burdensome beauty - for your sole sake
Heaven has put away the stroke of her doom,
So great her portion in that peace you make
By merely walking in a room.
(Broken Dreams”
Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
“Bureaucracies are a strange beast whose only goal is obesity.”
Source: The Southerners Guide To Surviving New York City: How not to get yourself killed.
“Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.”
Source: Once Around the Sun
“Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.”
“Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.”
“Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.”
Source: Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
“Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.”
“Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of organizing stupidity--of managing relationships that are already characterized by extremely unequal structures of imagination, which exist because of the existence of structural violence.”
Source: The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
“Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.”
“Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.”
“Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.”
“Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.”
Source: The Revolution Betrayed
“Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.”
“Bureaucracy? Dead on arrival.
Military coordination? Like herdin’ greased geese.
Economy? Flatter than a barmaid’s singing voice.
City systems? Hah. Might as well be carved in fog.
All them noble forms of Roman order? Gone fishin’ — and
forgot their pole.”
Source: From Youngstown to Rome´s Fall: How I, Earl Jenkins, Remembered What the Empire Forgot
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”
“Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“Bureaucracy elevates conformity, make that 'elevates fatal stupidity', to the status of religion.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.”
“Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.”
“Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.”
“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
“Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.”
“Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time
making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.”
Source: The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928
“Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.”
“Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.”
“Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.”
Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.”
Source: The World As I See It
“bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.”
Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”
“bureaucrat: (n.) career sadist who uses red tape to immobilize victims.”
Source: The Angel's Dictionary
“Bureaucratic apathy is worse than bureaucratic corruption.”
Source: Woman Over World: The Novel
“Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.”
“Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not simple, predictable, or standardized. Consequently, instructional decisions cannot be formulated on high then packaged and handed down to teachers.”
Source: The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work
“Bureaucratic systems are not set up to be what we refer to as human service organizations. They were established to collect revenue and maintain law and order and they used a law and order approach in providing family planning services.”
“Bureaucrats and Politicians are different people, work of Bureaucrats makes us hate Politicians.”
“Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit”
Source: Impact: essays on ignorance and the decline of American civilization