“Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.” HumansSufferingEvilConditionsConceptsClaimsUnityThanksLife And DeathProtestRebellionMotivatedHuman ConditionMetaphysicalIncompletenessWastefulness Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.” IfsMenForceFocusConditionsShapesConceptsPrimariesBiologyUnnaturalUntrue Author:Rachel Carson
“Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain.” GamesBrainSeaConditionsSmartConceptsRiversFishesCome UpBoatLakesFishingSmarterPuzzlesCatchingFishermanTroutMatchingAnglersCatching Fish Author:Lee Wulff
“Quantum physics presents a new and exciting worldview that challenges old concepts, such as deterministic trajectories of motion and causal continuity. If initial conditions do not forever determine an object's motion, if instead, every time we observe, there is a new beginning, then the world is creative at the base level.” IfsWorldChallengesLevelsForeverCreativeConditionsObjectsConceptsExcitingDeterminePhysicsQuantumNew BeginningsInitialsContinuityWorldviewQuantum PhysicsTrajectory Book:The Self-Aware Universe Source: The Self-Aware Universe
“The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial conditions and processes in order to make outrages upon them not outrageous.” OrderProcessConditionsEasierConceptsOutrageousOutrage Author:William Morris Davis
“Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imaginations and experience. But meanwhile, . . . we might do well to look upon the inadequacy of our concepts of God as the truest mirror of those limitations that define our condition.” WellsLooksMightAbleImaginationConditionsOne DayLimitsConceptsMirrorsLimitationSufficientLook UpMajestyTruestPossessingInadequacyExpansiveness Author:Ian Tattersall
“In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions” IfsOrderPrinciplesConditionsConceptsStructureProbabilityMaximumEquilibriumComplexion Author:Ilya Prigogine
“When your child has matured sufficiently to understand how the judicial system works, set a bedtime for him and then send him to bed an hour early. When he tearfully accuses you of breaking the rules, explain that you made the rules and you can interpret them in any way that seems appropriate to you, according to changing conditions. This will prepare him for the Supreme Court's concept of the US Constitution as a 'living document'.” WayChildrenMadeSeemsHoursConditionsBedConceptsConstitutionOur ChildrenCourtSupremeYour ChildrenAppropriateDocumentsSupreme CourtJudicialBedtimeMaturedUs ConstitutionJudicial System Author:Joseph Sobran