“You told me you had destroyed it."
"I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.”
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Context: I think of my suffering, of the problem of my suffering. What am I suffering from? From knowledge — is it going to destroy me? What am I suffering from? From sexuality — is it going to destroy me? How I hate it, this knowledge which forces even art to join it! How I hate it, this sensuality, which claims everything fine and good is its consequence and effect. Alas, it is the poison that lurks in everything fine and good! — How am I to free myself of knowledge? By religion? How am I to free myself of sexuality? By eating rice?
“Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.”
Geoffrey West (1940) British physicist
1990s <br class="br">Source: George Johnson. " Of Mice and Elephants: A Matter of Scale http://hep.ucsb.edu/courses/ph6b_99/0111299sci-scaling.html," in: hep.ucsb.edu. Jan. 12, 1999.