“Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad , symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods.” KnowsHeartKnow HowVirtueDivineSourcePureModelsSacredSymbolsTheeImmenseSwearEngraved Author:Pythagoras
“We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it.” ThinkingKnowsKidsKnow HowImaginePureProveComputerModels Author:Jaron Lanier
“General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.” WorldDoeRealUseBodyLyingNamesLevelsSituationStudyBuildingTheoryDisciplinePureModelsConnectionsMathematicsReal WorldConstructionConcreteOrganizeTheoreticalThinkableSystems Theory Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.” PeopleMenTryingVisionPlayerLandFootballColorHe ManPureModelsIncrediblesTreasureCodeCracksDrsAstronautFootball PlayerPolaroidsNational Treasure Author:Steve Jobs
“Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.” IdeasPhilosophyLostPureModelsEssenceAncientGreekEngagedAncient Greek Author:Julian Baggini
“...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.” WorldWayHumansKindUniverseEnergyCausesStuffPureModelsExpectationsFlowIntentionCoreCelestine Prophecy Book:The celestine prophecy: an adventure Source: The celestine prophecy: an adventure