Some places don't exist on a map - but I still visit them. Some visitors' books don't exist either - but I still write in them.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Day 5: Avoid fields. Jump fences...
"...disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold , complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields."
Would-be blogger campeuno once announced to a friend that she was thinking of keeping a diary: "I don't intend to publish. I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God." "Don't you think God already knows the facts?" the friend asked. "Yes," said campeuno. "He knows the facts, but He does not know this version of the facts."*
(* Original dialogues by physicists Leo Szilard and Hans Bethe as recorded by Hans Christian von Baeyer in 'Taming the Atom'.)