From Consilience:the Unity of Knowledge
“The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.” – Isaiah Berlin There is a book titled ‘Consilience: the unity of … Read more
note: Life Explained
A quick note from a book before I fall asleep and forget about it… Life Explained by Michel Morange (ISBN 978-0-300-13732-3) 1952: J.Perrett “Life is a potentially self-perpetuating open system of linked organic reactions, catalyzed stepwise and almost isothermally by complex and specific organic catalysts which are themselves produced by the system.” -corresponds to 1/2 … Read more
