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"Exasperated by how physicists used concepts related to time in tricky, dual senses, he asked: “Does not science act on us like ancient magic?” | Bergson. Dude, and I thought the Bohr/Einstein debate was big. This is incredible! I wish I could have been there a part of this debate. This is totally my jam! 😍 I guess technically, though, I AM a part of the debate - as it continues to this day because of them.

After Brunschvicg’s comments, others jumped in, criticizing how Langevin described clocks as “aging” and “growing old.” “But so be it! Call it aging, if you want, the acceleration of the hands of a watch,” expressed one exasperated member. The physicist Jean Perrin, a strong supporter of Einstein and a friend of Langevin, added with irony: “When physicists say ‘aging,’ that is one word I especially like." 😆

"The by-then-common interpretation of the debate, where Einstein appeared victorious over Bergson, had led to a dangerous outcome, according to Merleau-Ponty. Now an all-pervading scientism overruled experience: “The experience of the perceived world with its obvious facts is no more than a stutter which precedes the clear speech of science." | DUDE this book! The dark secret basement of Einstein. 😏

“Yet if one has the need for something great, something infinite, something in which one can see God, one needn’t look far. I thought I saw something—deeper, more infinite, more eternal than an ocean—in the expression in the eyes of a baby—when it wakes in the morning and crows—or laughs because it sees the sun shine into its cradle. If there is a ‘ray from on high’, it might be found there.”

Rereading this one again just because. (I don’t think I ever fully finished it, though.) The author promised he wouldn’t use a lot of math, and yet it seems like he is using an awful lot of math. 🥴🫠 Love how he explains quantum mechanics, though.

“The human is neither angel nor beast nor angel-beast. She is an animal-spiritual hybrid, whom Percy describes as a pilgrim.”

“Oh. Dot. I always wanted to go there.” | Crow T. Robot (Mystery Science Theater 3000 8x04 The Deadly Mantis)

Just beginning and already this stuff is the shiz! Villeneuve could kill this in his sleep, with one hand tied behind his back! I am already imagining it as he would film it. The aesthetic of Rama is literally straight from out of his mind and ‘the Divinity’ of the scenario and circumstances is already programmed in. This is going to be amazing!! 😃

“But with the faintest prospect of a woman to my friend, I poorest of creatures, was yet a possible man!” - Why is this one of the most deeply beautiful things I have ever read?

“Self will come to life even in the slaying of self; but there is ever something deeper and stronger than it, which will emerge at last from the unknown abysses of the soul: will it be as a solemn gloom, burning with eyes? or a clear morning after the rain? or a smiling child, that finds itself nowhere, and everywhere?”

This book is blowing my mind.

“The library was a mighty hall, lighted from the roof, which was formed of something like glass, vaulted over in a single piece, and stained throughout with a great mysterious picture in gorgeous colouring.”

There is always a library.

“I told you,” said the woman, “you had better not look into that closet.” 😳

WHUT

Uh no one told me Phantastes was a horror novel. This stuff is terrifying.

“Look at him! Look at him! He has begun a story without a beginning, and it will never have any end. He! he! he! Look at him!"

“God, for some mysterious reason, waits upon human making and chose to use our ability to make bread and wine to reveal Jesus’ resurrected presence known at the table of the Eucharist. Imagine that! The resurrected Christ waits until we create, until the soil we cultivate is harvested, and until we make, to reveal Himself to us!”