"The Mobius strip is only an analog for the reality of what it is."

-- Paul Laffoley

#Reality Quotes #Analog Quotes

“Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their course and to experiment with them. "On earth," said Laplace, "we make phenomena vary by experiments; in the sky, we carefully define all the phenomena presented to us by celestial motion." Certain physicians call medicine a science of observations, because they wrongly think that experimentation is inapplicable to it.”
“I leaned forward on the table and leveled her with my steady gaze. â€œDo not ever speak to her that way again. If she hadnâ€™t agreed to come with me I wouldnâ€™t have come. Donâ€™t underestimate her importance. Sheâ€™s mine. Respect that.”
“But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.”
“That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.”
“I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.”
“I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
“I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.”
“'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful technologies that allow for "action at a distance" that aggregate apparently negligible acts into powerful forces that are transforming fundamental planetary systems. In this sense 'the anthropocene' refers to a period in which nature as an independent autonomous domain comes to an end or is under serious threat.”

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