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We are products of a past world where sensitivities to certain things were a matter of life or death.
The Artful Universe (1995)
There is a good deal more to Pythagorean musical theory than celestial harmony.
The Artful Universe (1995)
Life, like science and art, is a theory about the world: a theory that in our case takes bodily form.
The Artful Universe (1995)
If we used our discriminatory power to full, we could generate an undulating sea of sound that displayed continuously changing frequency rather like the undersea sonic songs of dolphins and whales.
The Artful Universe (1995)
If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
The Artful Universe (1995)
Where there is life there is a pattern, and where there is a pattern there is mathematics. Once that germ of rationality and order exists to turn a chaos into a cosmos, then so does mathematics. There could not be a non-mathematical Universe containing living observers.
The Artful Universe (1995)
Highly correlated brown and black noise patterns do not seem to have seem to have attractive counterparts in the visual arts. There, over-correlation is the order of the day, because it creates the same dramatic associations that we find in attractive natural scenery, or in the juxtaposition of symbols. Somehow, it is tediously predictable when cast in a one-dimensional medium, like sound.
The Artful Universe (1995)