Sensibility and Sense: The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World (2010), Introduction
Original: La mente umana è un mondo a parte. Complesso, misterioso e mai conosciuto completamente. Per questo motivo, intrigherà sempre l'anima, il corpo ed un'altra mente.
Source: prevale.net
2. Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)
The Age of Uncertainty (1977), BBC Television series (also published in book form, non verbatim version)
Martin Gardner, puzzle master extraordinaire http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29688355 obituary by Colm Mulcahy, BBC News Magazine, October 21, 2014
“A book that reveals the mind is worth more than one that only reveals its subject.”
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)
Travis McGee series, A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)
Context: I know just enough about myself to know I cannot settle for one of those simplifications which indignant people seize upon to make understandable a world too complex for their comprehension. Astrology, health food, flag waving, bible thumping, Zen, nudism, nihilism — all of these are grotesque simplifications which small dreary people adopt in the hope of thereby finding The Answer, because the very concept that maybe there is no answer, never has been, never will be, terrifies them.
“To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.”
Book I, Introduction, p. 5
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
“Ask the world to reveal its quietude”
not the silence of machines when they are still,
but the true quiet by which birdsongs,
trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms
become what they are, and are nothing else.
Given (2005), Sabbaths 2001
