Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate in Physics (author of The God Particle)
“I have always believed that the scientist’s most sacred obligation is to continue to do science. Now I know that I was dead wrong. I am driven to the ultimately wise advice of my Columbia mentor, I.I. Rabi, who, in our many corridor bull sessions, [...]
In “The Selfish Gene” evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins lays out the groundwork for what has become known as Memetics. Dawkins’ “meme,” a mixture of the words “gene” and “mime,” describes the function of ideas and how they are shared in human society. The “gene” part of the word “meme” makes the assumption that ideas propagate [...]
once
i told you we’d
catch black holes
with butterfly nets
composed of anti
matter
seal them in canopic
jars and watch the
world
implode
smiling
you asked me
how i got the camel
through the eye of the
needle
did i re-enact
a tesseract?
my reponse:
when you stole my electron
initiating this unstable
isotope
quietly
she says
but ours is a covalent
bond
we merely share our energies
in a mutual attraction
the probability of which
is
astronomical
in
the
least
she tells me:
there is something [...]