“Since industrialization, we have moved rapidly out of synchronicity with nature and our own nature.”
Revolution (2014)
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Russell Brand149
British comedian, actor, and author 1975Related quotes
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
" Is atheism irrational? A philosopher says “yes” http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/is-atheism-irrational-a-philosopher-says-yes/" October 15, 2014
Douglas Coupland book Life After God
essentially hasn't changed over all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel the same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
Life After God (1994)
“We don’t need natural disasters. We’re building our own.”
Jiri Lev (1979)
Source: The Australian Architects Offering Pro-Bono Design Services to Bushfire Survivors https://hivelife.com/architects-assist/.
“Since, however, all multitude and magnitude are by their own nature of necessity infinite”
Nicomachus (60–120) Ancient Greek mathematician
Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)
Context: Things... are some of them continuous... which are properly and peculiarly called 'magnitudes'; others are discontinuous, in a side-by-side arrangement, and, as it were, in heaps, which are called 'multitudes,' a flock, for instance, a people, a heap, a chorus, and the like.
Wisdom, then, must be considered to be the knowledge of these two forms. Since, however, all multitude and magnitude are by their own nature of necessity infinite—for multitude starts from a definite root and never ceases increasing; and magnitude, when division beginning with a limited whole is carried on, cannot bring the dividing process to an end... and since sciences are always sciences of limited things, and never of infinites, it is accordingly evident that a science dealing with magnitude... or with multitude... could never be formulated.... A science, however, would arise to deal with something separated from each of them, with quantity, set off from multitude, and size, set off from magnitude.<!--pp.183-184
Robert A. Heinlein book Farmer in the Sky
Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 2, “The Green-Eyed Monster” (p. 21)
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) German theoretical physicist
This has also appeared in the alternate form: "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
Physics and Philosophy (1958)
Variant: What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Source: Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
