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The opposite of nature is impossible
1965
So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon
students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of
their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a
monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even
themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behaviour of
professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for,
comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal
principles. The everywhere-relative velocities and momentums of
interactions, of energetic phenomena of universe, are central to the
preoccupations and realizations of the comprehensive designer. The concept
of relativity involves high frequency of re-established awareness, and
progressively integrating consideration of the respective, and also
integrated dynamic complexities of the moving and transforming frame of
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be
logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly
responsible communication to be crisply brief. . . . In the meantime, humanity
has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
1975
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend
on us.
1978