[MD] The New Physics and Cosmology Dialogues

[MarshaV]

At 06:40 AM 11/23/2008, you wrote:

>'The New Physics and Cosmology Dialogues with the Dalai Lama' edited 
>by Arthur Zajonc.


"ANTON ZEILINGER:  ...  There was a famous Austraian physicist named 
Wolfgang Pauli who was known for his sarcastic remarks.  When the 
American mathematician John von Neumann, who was very proud of having 
calculated some proof, told Pauli that he could actually prove this 
point, Pauli replied that if physics required nothing more than being 
able to prove things, then von Neumann would be a great 
physicist.  So, we really have to grapple with concepts now rather 
than proofs."
      (P. 151)


I read 'concepts' as 'patterns', interrelated and interconnected patterns.

East and West.


Marsha








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The Universe is uncaused, like a net of jewels in which each is a 
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