Literature &Philosophy &Science Entropy | 04 Aug 2007
Scientist and artist -Alan Lightman remembers when the sense of scientific creativity almost lifted him by the hair and “pulled him out of the water.” He recalled the experience while lecturing an overflow crowd at the Academy on March 22, 2005: I was working on my first big project as a graduate student. I had [...]
Philosophy &Science Entropy | 03 Aug 2007
Among the many enduring passions of Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming is only the one with the most pages. In 1957, a lanky, bespectacled college student named Donald Knuth caught a glimpse of a beautiful stranger through a window and fell deeply in love. The object of his affection blinked enticingly back at [...]
With the ink of its showers and rains With the quill of its lightning, with the Hand of its clouds, winter wrote a letter Upon the garden, in purple and blue No artist could conceive the like of that. And this is why the earth, grown Jealous of the sky, embroidered stars in The folds [...]
Metaphysical Poetry &Poetry Entropy | 02 Aug 2007
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. – William Blake, 1799, [...]