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“It is a testimony to the power of education that classical mechanics could operate for so long under a mistaken conception. Teaching and research concentrated on integrable systems, each feeding the other, until in the end we had no longer the tools nor the interest for studying nonintegrable systems.”

Ivar Ekeland

Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 4, From Computation To Geometry, p. 84.

Education , Study

“Power is no linger seen as inheriting its legitimacy from some divine authority; it is a mere convention which we adhere to because we are born and educated into it, and because we see others conform to it. Its strength lies in the fact that we believe that others believe in it: power is no more than the illusion of power. The exercise of power is a constant fight to keep up appearances.”

Ivar Ekeland

Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 8, The End of Nature, p. 164.

Education , Exercises , Appearance , Fight

“Well, it has been a long time since manna last fallen from from heaven. We cannot live alone; we rely on others to produce the stuff of our material and intellectual life, and we have to organize society so that its members will cooperate toward the common good.”

Ivar Ekeland

Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 9, The Common Good, p. 167.

Life , Time