I'd love to let you all know just how much I'm learning from my classes. Unfortunately, the only source through which I've learned anything at all (besides going out on my own and learning from the locals) is this book a classmate let me borrow for the week. Science and Poetry by Mary Midgley... Already half way done, here's some good quotes from it:
"A poet once said, 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine'...There are the things of physics, the twisting liquid which evaporates according to the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of stars, what strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be?...There in the wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe into parts-physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so forth-remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, remembering ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it, and forget it all!- Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics"
"Set your sail, O happy youth,' he cried, 'and flee from every form of education'"-Epicurus (Yeah, that's how I feel right about now)
"True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind."-Lucretius, Book V
Well, wish there was more to write about. A little angry at the moment and I don't want to allow myself to go on another furious tirade so I'll just leave it be.
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