7 Relativity is the most absolutist of physical theories. Einstein wanted it to be called the theory of invariance [speed of light is absolute]
11 That an interaction which cannot be measured exactly cannot happen exactly [Heisenberg] jumps from the operational to the ontological
41 You will never know what is enough until you have more than enough [Blake]
51 The poisonous bite of a tarantula: homosexuality [Xenophon Memor p.22]
52 Marxists have always loved working on democracies that worked
51+ I.F. Stone
52 Popper
54 Guardini
60 the failure of saving the phenomena
61 the temptation to pantheism which ruined ancient religion as well as ancient science
76 Newton spent his old age erasing Descartes from his notebooks [as Descartes erased Buridan from his memory]
90 Kant’s failure
93 Newtonian physics which Kant knew only by hearsay
94 faith taken for sentiment
95 If nothing remains unchanged while changes go on, there is no ground to predicate change itself
105 Science made all too manifest its inability to assure its proper use
126 the infinity catastrophe
150 Fritz Haber’s synthetic nitric acid made it possible to prolong the war from 4 months to 4 years
156 Supercollider [he’s for it]
176 Capitalism played v. little part in that creative explosion which has characterized science for the past hundred years
200 Science is organized common sense
201 Quantum theory: no one can cut thinner than the thinnest instrument at his disposal
207 Plato who frowned on material reality
209 Principle of uncertainty = principle of operational inexactitude
215 on the other
227 Physicists like everyone are subject to the logic of the first step taken
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