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Archive for May, 2007

Science Entropy | 05 May 2007

Spanish Post Office honours Mendeleev

This stamp commemorates the death of Mendeleev (February 1907), one of the lead figures responsible for the periodic table. Absolutely excellent choice of colours if I might say so! The stamp was sent to me by Prof Gabriel Pinto (Departamento de Ingeniería Química Industrial, ETSI Industriales, UPM, Madrid, Spain) and I quote from his web [...]

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Books &Philosophy Entropy | 01 May 2007

Prologue to Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography

This is an inspiring thoughts by Bertrand Russell Prologue to his Autobiography.. . What I Have Lived For Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, [...]

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Theme

One of the attributes that makes us human is that we try to make sense of things that don't make sense. We often impute order where there may be none...

These traits occasionally can lead us to form conclusions that don't correspond to reality ..

Poetry & Entropy

If you ask me what my poetry is, I must answer : I don’t know but if you ask my poetry, it will tell you who I am -- Pablo Neruda

Passion

The voice of Passion is better than voice of reason. The passionless can not change history- Czeslaw Milosz

Reflection

To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight--and never stop fighting. -E.E. Cummings

Thoughts

I should not talk so much about myself if there was anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. - Henry David Thoreau

Conscience

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. -Madame De Stael-

Connecting the dots..

Parul Doshi on Existential Meditation
Nimesh Dadia on Existential Meditation
Marie on Existential Meditation
Anisha on Existential Meditation
Exploring Our Inner Wilderness | Entropy... on Psychology & Economics
Sudeep Kamath on The New Reality
Michele Roohani on What is the value of not knowing?
Michele on Seasons
marie on Seasons
Rachana Chhabra on Amtrak Signals
Michele on Mark Twain celebrated in a Google Doodle
Nimesh Dadia on Amtrak Signals
Aashish Takia on Amtrak Signals
Michele on Color is Life
Michele on Architectural Stradivarius
Sandy on Mindfulness in Medicine
Ashwin Panemangalore on Reclaiming a Moment
Nimesh Dadia on Reclaiming a Moment
Michele on Poetic License
Malvi on The Myths that Mystify

Art

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. -Joan Miro.

What you may wish to read

Beauty

“Beauty is something to be found, rather than passively encountered” -- --Alain de Botton