Preface
The Book of Nothing (2009)
Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 16
Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)
“There is a good deal more to Pythagorean musical theory than celestial harmony.”
The Artful Universe (1995)
Context: Ancient belief in a cosmos composed of spheres, producing music as angels guided them through the heavens, was still fluorishing in Elizabethan times.... There is a good deal more to Pythagorean musical theory than celestial harmony. Besides the music of the celestial spheres (musica mundana), two other varieties of music were distinguished: the sound of instruments...(musica instrumentalis), and the continuous unheard music that emanated from the human body (musica humana), which arises from a resonance between the body and the soul.... In the medieval world, the status of music is revealed by its position within the Quadrivium—the fourfold curriculum—alongside arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. Medieval students... believed all forms of harmony to derive from a common source. Before Boethius' studies in the ninth century, the idea of musical harmony was not considered independently of wider matters of celestial or ethical harmony.<!-- Ch. 5, pp. 201-202
“There's less in this than meets the eye.”
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“There is less there than meets the eye.”
On Prime Minister Clement Attlee, to President Truman, in 1946. When Truman defended Attlee (‘He seems a modest sort of fellow’), Churchill replied ‘He’s got a lot to be modest about.’ As cited in The Origins of the Cold War in Europe (1994), Reynolds, Yale University Press, p. 93 ISBN 0300105622
Post-war years (1945–1955)
This is My God: The Jewish Way of Life (1959)
“Day and night are nothing more than illusions before our eyes.”
“There’s nothing more dangerous than a good idea.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
