“Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.” MenGivingWellsKindMayEndsStatesTogetherOrderUnderstandingNatureLossAnswersRelationshipConditionsSubjectsTheoryComfortBuiltFellowsStructureDeeperMythMythologyMake SenseExplanationReliefDescriptionFellow ManPsychoanalysisBelievableBewildermentDeeper UnderstandingIncoherenceLoose EndsBelievabilityLevi Strauss Author:Peter Medawar
“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.” WorldSelfCountryNatureJourneyTravelDescriptionFunny TravelAcquaintance Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
“Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of the science, and thus what appears to us as elegance of description really reflects the interconnectedness of Nature's laws at different levels.” DifferentLawScienceTermNatureSimpleLevelsStageExpressionDevelopmentSimplicityMathematicalDescriptionEquationsEleganceInterconnectednessDifferent LevelsStages Of Development Author:Murray Gell-Mann
“When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'” ThinkingWorldScienceNatureNaturalAnswersConcernTasksPhysicsAbstractDescriptionQuantumQuantum PhysicsQuantum Theory Author:Niels Bohr