Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules. . . Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.
Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.
Social evolution is demonstrated by movement towards unity, not separatism.
I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
I'm hoping that "South Of Wilshire" will help people to realize that these are places that they should patronize, not avoid.
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.