Will Gregory
Will Gregory
William Owen "Will" Gregory17 September 1959) is an English musician and record producer. He is best known as the lead keyboardist, producer, and composer of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp...
mean two numbers
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.
believe opportunity ideas
What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who will want it most. Obviously, our democratic system tends to give power to those who hunger for it and gives every opportunity to those who don't want power to avoid getting it. Not a very satisfactory arrangement if power corrupts those who believe in it and want it.
doe prove
Science probes; it does not prove.
stress sides language
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
beauty beautiful believe
Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty. Most of us do not today believe that whatever the ups and down of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
names territory maps
The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.
winning environment creatures
The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.
art sleep warfare
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
orchids patterns lobster
What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?
believe
There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else.
spiritual emotional hands
The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.
balls characteristics
Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.
differences making-a-difference information
Information is a difference that makes a difference.
powerful believe self
But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less believe in it. It is a myth, which, if everybody believes in it, becomes to that extent self-validating. But it is still epistemological lunacy and leads inevitably to various sorts of disaster.