Source: God and the New Physics (1983), Ch. 17: 'The physicist's conception of nature', p. 223
“To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.”
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Zhuangzi
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Source: Poverty (1912), p. 12
Context: During the entire last century many of the best minds were engaged in the study of social and economic questions. At the beginning of this new century we are still asking "riddles about the starving." After many years of most elaborate investigations printed in thousands of volumes issued by federal and state governments we are almost as far from any definite knowledge concerning the extent of poverty as we have ever been.
