You got something to prove,
Tell me, whose eyes you gonna use?
Kongos
I Want to Know
Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
Coldplay
Yellow
Come up to meet you
Tell you I’m sorry
You don’t know how lovely you are
I had to find you
Tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart
You’re falling out of reach
Defying gravity
I know you’re out there
Somewhere out there
Our Lady Peace
Somewhere Out There
Tell me your secrets
And ask me your questions
Oh let’s go back to the start
Running in circles; coming up tails
Heads on a science apart
Your sky is full of dreams
But you don’t know how to fly
The Killers
This Is Your Life
Nobody said it was easy
It’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start
Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. 3
Nikola Tesla
I was just guessing at
numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart
Questions of science;
science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart
Open hearts, feel about it
Open minds, think about it
Everyone, read about it
Everyone, scream about it!
Tears for Fears
Sowing The Seeds of Love
Tell me you love me
Come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are
People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations, Ellis argues. For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations.
Ellis has published a paper on this. You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that.
What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models.
A lot of cosmology tries to hide that. 4
George F. R. Ellis
1995 Scientific American
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 5
It’s my own design
It’s my own remorse
Tears for Fears
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Nobody said it was easy
Oh it’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I’m going back to the start
My creation, is it real?
Oingo Boingo
Weird Science
Notes & References:
- The NeverEnding Story
↩︎ - The Giver
↩︎ - Modern Mechanix and Inventions “Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World” (July 1934)
↩︎ - Gibbs, W. W. (1995). Thinking Globally, Acting Universally. Scientific American, 273(4), 50–55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24981952
↩︎ - Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
↩︎ - Buckminster Fuller Institute, https://www.bfi.org/2012/05/22/making-the-world-work/
↩︎ - As quoted in The Language of God (2006) by Francis Collins, p. 60
↩︎ - The Meaning of Masonry
↩︎ - The Closing of the Western Mind, xvi, https://archive.org/details/closingofwester00char
↩︎ - The NeverEnding Story
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Songs:
Kongos – I Want to Know
Coldplay – Yellow
Our Lady Peace – Somewhere Out There
The Killers – This Is Your Life
Tears for Fears – Sowing The Seeds of Love
Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Oingo Boingo – Weird Science
Twenty One Pilots – Chlorine
Capital Cities – One Minute More
Coldplay – The Scientist
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that
makes the existing model obsolete. 6
Buckminster Fuller
I don’t have a simple answer
But I know that I could answer
Something better
The Killers
This Is Your Life
To attain this transmutation, this metamorphosis of himself, he is taught first to purify and subdue his sensual nature; then to purify and develop his mental nature; and finally, by utter surrender of his old life and losing his soul to save it, he rises from the dead a Master, a just man made perfect, with larger consciousness and faculties, an efficient instrument for use by the Great Architect in His plan of rebuilding the Temple of fallen humanity, and capable of initiating and advancing other men to a participation in the same great work. 8
W.L. Wilmshurst
The Meaning of Masonry
Can you build my house with pieces?
I’m just a chemical
Twenty One Pilots
Chlorine
It takes only one independent and effective
rational mind to change the paradigms of understanding
for the rest of humankind. 9
Charles Freeman
The Closing of the Western Mind
The NeverEnding Story 10
Don’t wait for an invitation
No need for reservation
This life is an exploration
And you gotta see what I see in you
Capital Cities
One Minute More
