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«The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.»
Author: Muriel Rukeyser
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Another Story, atoms, made, stories, the universe, universe
«The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms»
«The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.»
«The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
(Author)
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atoms, banal, color television, composed, dial, dials, dimensions, disappeared, dot, dots, dotted, drained, flat, flicker, flickering, flickers, lament, microscopic, phenomena, reassure, reassuring, reduced, registered, screen, sharply, The Dial, the movie, trivial, two dimensions
«The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
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Belief,
Religion
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atoms, contingent, contingent on, modern science, novelty, preferences, radical, rejection
«We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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atoms, divisible, divisible by, explanation, lines, operate, Planes
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