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Tag Archives: Isaac Newton
Solitude: How to Expose Yourself to the Twilight Zone for Real
This past weekend I was thinking about the importance of solitude to the life of the mind, and it occurred to me that it is useful to think of solitude as a place of exposure. Solitude, in other words, is where we … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, imagination, inspiration, Isaac Newton, meditation, Nietzsche, percy shelley, philosophy, solitude, the twilight zone, twilight zone, walking
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The Present is Where Isaac Newton and Niels Bohr Meet? An Intriguing New Theory of the Block Universe!
And it might even preserve free will. Technology Review (published by MIT) reports today that two physicists have a new idea about what it means to live in a block universe: Today, Ellis and Rothman introduce a significant new type of block … Continue reading
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Tagged free will, freedom, Isaac Newton, niels bohr, philosophy, physics, science, the block universe, Zen
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Atheism v. Theism or Naturalism v. Supernaturalism?
Is a better term for atheist, naturalist? And is a better term for theist, supernaturalist? British philosopher Anthony Grayling thinks so, and in a Gaurdian essay from two years ago he suggests that shifting from the atheist-theist to the naturalist-supernaturalist designations … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, Galileo, God, Isaac Newton, Jesus, naturalism, Nullis in verba, religion, supernaturalism, theism
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Dirt Road Through an American Town—1860s—and a Quote from Isaac Newton
The course of nature . . . seems delighted with transmutations. (Opticks 1704)
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, change, Charles Darwin, Civil War, death, evolution, Heraclitus, Isaac Newton, life, philosophy, physics, Santi Tafarella
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Prometheus Unbound 