“A totally new concept of building design evolves from the application of basic aerodynamic phenomenon. Vetillation by installation of windows becomes obsolete… Air can be brought into the building from the roof or from under the floor. Wind scoops can be designed to assist the flow of air from practically any angle.”
The Owner Built Home: A How-to-do-it Book (1972)
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“Can build castles in the air.”
Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Opening words of [No Free Lunch: Why Complexity Cannot be Purchased Without Intelligence, Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, 0742512975, http://www.arn.org/docs/dembski/wd_nfl_intro.htm, Preface]
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Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner Reproduzierbarkeit The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935)
Source: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Source: The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics (1959), p. 61
Context: Ptolemy left in his Optics, the earliest surviving table of angles of refraction from air to water. … This table, quoted and requoted until modern times, has been admired … A closer glance at it, however, suggests that there was less experimentation involved in it than originally was thought, for the values of the angles of refraction form an arithmetic progression of second order … As in other portions of Greek Science, confidence in mathematics was here greater than that in the evidence of the senses, although the value corresponding to 60° agrees remarkably well with experience.
