Newton : Sir Isaac (1642-1727), English physicist & mathematician, best known for his formulation of the Law of Gravitation & of the Laws of Motion.
... the absence of stark opposition has been with regard to the science that is the very foundation of all sciences: physics. What is called classical or Newtonian physics was with Galileo and Kepler and Newton "the thinking of God's thoughts after Him". That is to say, physics was regarded as a discovery, by actual observation and by mathematical calculation, of the processes and laws of matter originating... originating in a Divine Intelligence. In fact, they were considered intelligible precisely because there was not only human intelligence dealing with them but also a Divine Intelligence at their back. Newton, the supreme scientist of the world until Einstein came to share his status, was an extremely religious mind - and this not by dividing science and religion into two distinct compartments which though... reduction of that universe to a harmonious seizability by the thinking mind which looks Page 120 always for simple fundamental all-integrating categories was most religiously meaningful for Newton: it showed him that behind the universe there was one great Mind systematically at work and laying itself out for discovery by its own small and diminished replica that is human rationality. Nor ...
... but it did not cover all the problems Newton had dealt with. The chief problem it kept aside was Page 50 "acceleration". Newton had divided motion into two parts: one was uniform, the other was accelerated. Accelerated motion meant change in the rate of speed or in the direction of speed. There was one factor which was" thought by Newton to induce on the widest and most general... system remain moving in their elliptical paths round the sun and how at certain arcs of their paths they move faster. Newton said that all objects have an attractive force and an enormous object like the sun must draw towards itself smaller ones like the planets. The sun, according to Newton, would bring all the planets crashing into it, were it not that they were in motion and this motion acted so as to... deep faith," he exclaims, "in the rationality of the structure of the world, what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world, there must have been in Kepler and Newton!" But, beyond the derivation of science from a "cosmic religious feeling", there is for Einstein an utter divergence between science and religion. Science, he believes, deals with what is, religion ...
... distinguish absolute space. As regards absolute time, Newton himself confessed that there may be no natural processes which enable us to measure it. We can never, in the nature of things, say whether we are dealing with absolute time or not. Both these entities therefore are described by Einstein as metaphysical, with no real place in science. Newton said that the centrifugal force developed by a rotating... mechanical model to be made of it, but long before the advent of relativity or quantum physics the mechanical model was found insufficient. For, what after all renders such a model possible? Galileo and Newton believed that all events could be reduced to forces which act between particles along lines connecting the particles and which depend only on distance. This belief and nothing else is in physics the... this mysterious ether which was also regarded as the world's substratum. We commonly think that nineteenth-century physics rested with what is usually termed matter as the stuff constituting the atom. Newton, as page 375 of his Optics (4th edition, 1730) will prove, did believe that the atom was composed of matter. But the nineteenth century put not matter but the ether first. Lord Kelvin was representative ...
... is: the absolute, if any, would not just raise, as those of Newton did, commonly understood motion, space and time to a universal plane of conception. And it would not for a simple reason: the relativities them- selves do not involve motion, space and time as commonly Page 97 understood. They are more radical than Newton thought and the three terms in each relativity are knit together... To strike on the true significance of the new concept we Page 92 should follow briefly the development of relativity theory by which a revolution was effected in Newton's physics. Newton had held that though every known material mass is in motion and therefore no motion of matter can be measured against any material mass at rest, we are not confined to merely relative measurements... view of the four- dimensional continuum is that though the Newtonian absolutes of space and time are abolished the relative space and time of Einstein are in fundamental nature the same as Newton's: Newton too was aware that at different stand- points different quantities are obtained for space and time and if he believed that the difference could be adjusted and a uniformity calculated in terms of absolute ...
... that the system he did propound would ignite the great revolution in physics that we associate with the names of Galileo, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton. The so-called Copernican revolution was really a later revolution of Galileo, Kepler, and Newton.” 13 In fact, Galileo’s “spyglass” or “optick tube” did more for the acceptance of the heliocentric system than Copernicus’ famous book. It may... well on the way toward modern physics and calculus. So, in an alternate version of history (in which the pursuits of science did not decline), just a few more centuries could have allowed the likes of Newton, Maxwell, Gauss, and Pasteur to anticipate our present state of knowledge about physics, mathematics, and biology.” 6 Out of the originally quite diverse Christian movement grew a structured... activist thinkers of centuries not that long past. It was against this 17th century background that the scientific revolution took place. The principles then formulated by Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, and a host of less well-known “natural philosophers,” are still the pillars supporting positivist or materialistic science today. All can be found, worded in various ways, in the works of Galileo ...
... we study the mind of his complex compositions. In his day Science had assumed undeniable authority. To ignore it seemed sheer escapism. The great Newton had stated in mathematical formulas the fixed laws of the heavenly bodies. According to Newton himself, the grand determinism of the starry processions proclaimed a divine law-giver. But the scientists who came after him had not the same gravity... cosmos looked clear-cut, orderly, self-contained: the very nature of the physical world appeared to be Page 234 revealed by Newton. Pope summed up Newton's achievement: Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and there was light. In our own day a poet has added: But not for long. The Devil shouting, "Ho, Let Einstein be!" restored ...
... with great respect and even conferred honorable posts on him. After these stories of the king and the prophet, I shall tell you one about a famous man of science, the Englishman Isaac Newton. Newton was born in 1642 and died in 1727. In the course of his long life he studied Nature; the universal force of attraction called gravitation, the effect of the sun and the moon on the tides; the... the seven colours of the rainbow; and many other things besides. Everyone marvelled at the wisdom of this man who was so skilled in reading the works and wonders of Nature. One day a lady spoke to Newton of his learning and knowledge and he replied: Page 259 "Alas! I am only like a little child picking up pebbles on the shore of the great ocean of truth." You will understand that the... child collects pebbles on the sea-shore, but how much vaster is the sea than the child thinks! And how much vaster still is the universe compared to our little thoughts! And do we think less of Newton because he compared himself to a little child? Certainly not. We honour him for his modesty. Many years ago a great singer, who had won a world-wide reputation for her wonderful voice and o ...
... and that also of necessity, since God, the Supreme Truth, must be incapable of teaching error.” (Leo XIII, 1893 6 ) Galileo barely escaped burning, Bruno did not. Descartes hesitated to publish, Newton hid his Arianism, Darwin stalled writing what would become the Origin for twenty years, the theologians Küng and Schillebeeckx were forbidden to teach, liberation theology was forbidden, many of... horribly stuck, and we need real seers, and badly,” writes Lee Smolin, one of the founders of string theory who has become its severe critic. And he reminds us that “there is no scientist, not even Newton or Einstein, who was not wrong on a substantial number of issues they had strong views about. … There is a great tendency to think that the fundamental principles of physics, once discovered, are eternal... Descartes had been educated by the Jesuits, spent much of his life in hiding for fear of suffering the same treatment by the Inquisition as Galileo, and did his best to find room for God in his worldview. Newton, as is now well known, dedicated more years of his life to alchemy and biblical theories than he did to science, and all that after the publication of the Principia Mathematica . The erosion of ...
... universe (the planets moved on crystalline spheres pushed forward by angels), and his model was the standard and even obligatory one in the Western world till Copernicus taught differently. To Isaac Newton the Earth was no longer the centre of the universe. His calculations proved that the solar system functioned like a clockwork mechanism, and that it was gravity which held the system together and moved... , which were living organisms. A dead bird does not move unless moved, a living bird flies away of itself. In the 1660s, when the main works of Galileo, Kepler and Descartes had been published and Newton was already working on his grand synthesis, “European medical knowledge and teaching were in a state of flux. New anatomical and physiological discoveries such as the circulation of the blood had ... × Galileo Galilei is usually referred to as ‘Galileo’, his first name, which is quite exceptional. Nobody ever refers to Newton as ‘Isaac’ or to Einstein as ‘Albert’. × David Bohm and David Peat: Science, Order and Creativity ...
... into the short "Preludium". And we may affirm that Blake's theme in his longer poems is, in different garbs, the same as in The First Book of Urizen - essentially the combating of the Bacon-Locke-Newton philosophy of a mechanical universe outside Mind, independent of Mind, instead of being organic part of it within an infinitude of Universal Divine Humanity. The Christian-Miltonic antecedents to the... concern with the rational-scientific materialism of Bacon, 229. Ibid., p. 226 (ibid., pl. 7, 1 .8). 230. Ibid., p. 222 (ibid., pl. 3, Ch. I, 11.1-5). Page 213 Locke and Newton. Even Raine's reading does not bring in that concern: it centres upon the problem of evil in the world or, in broader terms, the relation of the ambiguous time-world to the luminous world of Eternity... & the grandeur of Inspiration, "To cast off Rational Demonstration by Faith in the Saviour, "To cast off the rotten rags of Memory by Inspiration, "To cast off Bacon, Locke & Newton from Albion's covering, "To take off his filthy garments & clothe him with Imagination... "These are the destroyers of Jerusalem, these are the murderers "Of Jesus, who deny ...
... biology. But what is now known under this name was systematized mainly by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. It is noteworthy that this take-off of the biological sciences came more than a century after Isaac Newton had published his Principia Mathematica (1686). Physics, based on mathematics, was considered a true, ‘hard’ science; the ‘soft’ sciences of which biology was comprised tried desperately to catch... by Lamarck into the scientific domain, has not gone away since then, and that it has remained the keystone of the whole evolutionary edifice.” 19 All great persons seem to have a nemesis. For Newton it was Leibniz, for Darwin it will be Richard Owen – and for Lamarck it was Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). Cuvier was one of the great French naturalists and throughout his life much honoured in his country... may not have been an unfair man, but he could become extremely possessive where his life’s work, his theory of transmutationism with its irksome problems, was at stake. In this he did not differ from Newton or, in more recent years, Kelvin or Eddington, and many others. Nevertheless, “the attitude of Darwin and the Darwinians towards Lamarck bestows honour neither on their intelligence nor on their ...
... India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo; even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous; for they discovered down to its ultimate processes the method of Yoga and by the method of... utterance) bids us beware of identifying our Self with a mere mass of primitive animal forms associated together by an aggregating nucleus of vital impulses; this surely is not the reality of Shakespeare & Newton, Buddha & St Francis! Then in those vital impulses we seek the bedrock of our being. But these too Science resolves into a delusion or image created by Nescience; for in reality these vital impulses ...
... as substance coming strongly coloured by the vital. But where and in what lies the vital colour which makes it the highest Shakespearean and not, say, the highest Wordsworthian—the line inspired by Newton? How does one catch here and elsewhere the essential differentiae?) "It is a question of feeling, not of intellectual understanding. The second quotation from Shakespeare— Eternity... Shakespeare's ... the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, there might be some doubt, but still it is quite different in tone from Wordsworth's line on Newton— Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone— which is an above-head vision—and the difference comes because the vision of the 'dreaming soul' is felt through the vital mind and ...
... world just like her. Time and Meaning "What is time?" asked St. Augustine, the famous Christian philosopher, and was puzzled. Even today, after the scientific inquiries into time by Newton and Einstein, there is no final word on it. As for Augustine's bewilderment it was a simple well-constructed thought. He knew what time was, he asserted, but if someone were to ask what it is, then... against? "Use the clock," one may advise; but can one measure time all at once? The present lapses into the past and the future in the present. Time fleets. However, this was demythologised by Newton who proposed an absolute time, true and mathematical; of itself it flows equally without relation to anything external. Out of this H. G. Wells could create a fiction, The Time Machine, so real ...
... all his best friends were disbelievers, freethinkers who did not hide their convictions. Moreover, the sciences had become materialistic and mechanistic since Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Isaac Newton, and Laplace. God in his heaven had still been reverenced for some time, though mainly to avoid the persecution and heavy punishment Giordano Bruno, Galileo and many others had suffered. In Britain... beliefs. Since Descartes the dominant scientific view of the world had become mechanistic. Descartes had still accepted a rational soul, but held that the body and all animal life forms were machines. Newton had been an alchemist and a Bible exegete, but his model of the universe was a kind of clockwork, put in motion by God Almighty, but afterwards left to its own automatic movement. And Laplace, in a ...
... Nonetheless, the data now at the disposal of the scientists of the micro- and the macroworlds, as those of biology, differ enormously from the data that were available to a Galileo, Descartes or Newton. The principle of studying the facts as perceived by the senses may remain the same, but – and this is only one different factor – instruments have extended the perception of the senses in a way scientists... 1959. Although biology relied on physics as its nethermost basis, the background mentality in the two fields was quite dissimilar, physics having its tradition of the great “mystics” (Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and the Einstein-Bohr generation), biology convinced of its metaphysical truths within a chitin shell of dogmatism, possibly secreted because of sheer vulnerability. Because of the Second World ...
... The staid voice of establishment in England, The Times of London , featured a wonderfully favourable review.” 6 “Along with the Bible, De Revolutionibus [Copernicus] , Principia Mathematica [Newton] and Das Kapital [Marx], Darwin’s Origin of Species must rank among the least read (at least in full) and most influential books of all time. It is no exaggeration to talk of it bringing about... history, assumed that it had reached the top of the hill of knowledge, striking up hymns of triumph. But looking back into the records of its errors, feuds and blind-alleys, one learns that even a Newton and an Einstein could be mistaken – actually could not but be mistaken – and that science, by way of speaking, keeps hitting its head against the wall of Truth or Reality. What, then, about our world ...
... as substance coming strongly coloured by the vital. But where and in what lies the vital colour which makes it the highest Shakespearean and not, say, the highest Wordsworthian—the line inspired by Newton? It is a question of feeling, not of intellectual understanding; to distinguish the vital or psychic or any other element one must have the feeling for its presence—an intellectual definition is... prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come. Here both style and language come ultimately from a higher above-mind level, but still it is quite different from Wordsworth's line on Newton which also has altogether an above-head vision and utterance—and the difference comes because the vision of the "dreaming soul" is felt through the vital mind and heart before it finds expression; ...
... unwittingly weave; Here too on our little reef display your power This fortress perched on the edge of the Atlantic scarp The mole between all Europe and the exile-crowded sea; And make us as Newton was who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.* Page 433 ... and Glamorgan hid a life Grim as a... lines; even so I do not know whether I can give a very decided answer to your question. The poetical quality of much of the piece is undoubted, though very uneven; for some of the lines, as those about Newton, seem to me to be quite prosaic whether in expression or rhythm; at other places even where the expression is strong and poetic, the movement falls short of an equal excellence. All Page 434 ...
... them, the mathematician, finds his laws often and perhaps usually not by a long process of observation and induction or deduction, but all on a sudden, in a flash of illumination. The famous story of Newton .and the falling apple, Kepler's happy guess of the elliptical orbit of the Page 301 planets – and a host of examples can be cited as rather the rule than the exception for the ... has to be tested by its effective application, in its successful working out. All scientific discoveries in the beginning appear as inconveniences that upset the known and accepted order. Copernicus, Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Maxwell or Einstein in our day enunciated principles that were not obvious sense-given axioms. These are at the outset more or less postulates that have to be judged by their app ...
... gemacht, alles undere ist Menschenwerk." ("The integer numbers have been made by God, everything else is the work of man.") Consider next the case of fluxions and infinitesimals introduced by Newton and Leibnitz in the building up of the Differential and the Integral Calculus, of which the initial logical difficulties provoked the opposition of George Berkeley and Bernard Nieuwen-tijt. Berkeley... case of the discovery of descriptive geometry by Pascal and Desargues or of the principles of probability by Pascal and Fermat. Coming to the 18th century we see the birth of Calculus at the hands of Newton and Leibnitz. The 19th century offers the example of almost simultaneous discovery of an interpretation of complex numbers made independently by Wessel, Argand and Gauss. Similarly Hamilton and Grassmann ...
... The God of the Scientist IT is meaningless to hold that a scientist must necessarily be an atheist. There is no need to cite instances of the past. Leaving aside the examples of Newton, Kepler and Tycho Brahe, even in the world of to-day it is not rare to find more than one scientist who believes in God. In this respect Lodge, Eddington, Einstein and Planck are outstanding figures... that the orbits of the planets were elliptical and the Sun is at one focus of these apparent ellipses? Is not this incident as strikingly wonderful as the discovery of the law of gravitation made by Newton when he noticed an apple fall to the ground? In fact, it is merely a notion or a mental complex that the scientific knowledge is solely or chiefly the outcome of the reasoning process. Many of the ...
... the inspirations of the Time-Spirit in their purity, so long as they remain loyal to it in the depths of their being. Pythagoras and Plato, Zoroaster and Christ and Mohammed, Leonardo, Galileo and Newton, Mirabeau, Danton, Robespierre and Napoleon, Mazzini and Garibaldi, Marx and Lenin etc., in the West, and Rama, Sri Krishna, Mahavira and Buddha, Shankaracharya and Chaitanya, Sri Ramakrishna and... the West without arriving at a proper assessment of the role Leonardo da Vinci played in it? or, the scientific revolution of the modern times without a correct estimate of the part played in it by Newton and Einstein? We have, therefore, set out to study the history of the renaissance (not the freedom movement only) in India by ascertaining, on the solid basis of historical data and con- temporary ...
... different, the walls might be different. But life? The Big Turk had his canaries and Mathilde had her theorems. A great deal took place which had little to do with theorems and defied the laws of Newton. She was reproached more than once for her disregard of rules, moral or Newtonian. "But naturally, it's against the rules! Everything I do is against the Page 86 rules, it's... which she drew down the 'Great Force' when she wanted to shake off the tirades of Matteo or the rebukes of Mathilde, "the same vibration." There is perhaps another way of vibrating that escapes Newton and his apple with its tiresome habit of falling? Page 92 9 The Guardian Angels Shall we pay a flying visit to the "Guardian Angels" ? Mother ...
... substance coming strongly coloured by the vital. But where and in what lies the vital colour which makes it the highest Shakespearean and not, say, the highest Words-worthian—the line inspired by Newton ? How does one catch here and elsewhere the essential differentiae ?) "It is a question of feeling, not of intellectual understanding. The second quotation from Shakespeare— Page 19... Shakespeare's ...the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, there might be some doubt, but still it is quite different in tone from Wordsworth's line on Newton— Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone— which is an above-head vision—and the difference comes because the vision of the 'dreaming soul' is felt through the vital mind and ...
... The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. This phrase relating to the face of Newton in the statue of him by Roubiliac at Cambridge — the statue bearing the inscription "New-ton qui genus humanum ingenio superavit" ("Newton who ex-ceeded the human race in genius") — is Phanopoeia of an extremely high order. The metaphor of "seas" is too open to let ...
... a certain aura, so to speak, of the unexpressed and even the inexpressible. There is, for instance, an unfathomable depth, an undertone and overtone of consciousness in Wordsworth's phrase about Newton: Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. But Middleton Murry would not complain that here there is something forced into the words, which they do not naturally tend to hold:... from Wordsworth— Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone— is not merely a crowning moment of English poetry but at the same time, for all its reference to the scientist Newton, a culminating spiritual moment which conjures up the atmosphere and rhythm of the ancient Upanishads. A Rishi of old seems to Page 25 intone that ample and profound verse. ...
... started from and returned to a-material suppositions. And theoretical physics in the last one hundred years has been leading up to “the matter myth”. In the preceding paragraph we have skipped Isaac Newton. As the result of a 1936 auction at Sotheby’s in London “scholars were enabled, for the first time, to assess the magnitude and scale of Newton’s Hermetic interests”, write Michael Baigent and Richard... revelation. The first commentator to publish the hitherto suppressed work was John Maynard Keynes, who concluded that Newton’s ‘deepest instincts were occult, esoteric, semantic …’ According to Keynes: ‘Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians’ … In the words of a subsequent commentator: ‘It may safely be said that Newton’s alchemical thoughts were so securely established ...
... Metaphysics It is well-known that the intellectual knowledge of Nature has developed from a mainly philosophical physics (e.g., Democritus, Aristotle) to a mainly scientific physics (Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Dalton, etc.). The science as developed after the Renaissance, - and which is incidentally one of the greatest achievements of the 17th century, - is a completely a-philosophic discipline... translated into the language of sense-data. But what of the intermediate steps? Should they too be capable of visualization in terms of sense-data? In the light of the achievements of Galileo, Kepler and Newton, it looked, indeed, in the first stages of physics, as if such a requirement could be imposed on the theory. It was the period of 'mechanistic picture' of the universe where all phenomena were to ...
... my research in physics. I said something like: "Newton showed that all physical bodies attract one another. Einstein with his relativity theory provided the reason for it. He said that the attraction is due to the fact that all these bodies are relatives!" Don't you think I deserve the Nobel prize for this illuminating rapport 1 have made between Newton and Einstein? So far they have been set at loggerheads ...
... them, the mathematician, finds his laws often and perhaps usually not by a long process of observation and induction or deduction, but all on a sudden, in a flash of illumination. The famous story of Newton and the falling apple, Kepler's happy guess of the elliptical orbit of the Page 208 planets—and a host of examples can be cited as rather the rule than the exception for the methodology... has to be tested by its effective application, in its successful working out. All scientific discoveries in the beginning appear as inconveniences that upset the known and accepted order. Copernicus, Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Maxwell or Einstein in our day enunciated principles that were not obvious sense-given axioms. These are at the outset more or less postulates that have to be judged by their app ...
... She was uncovering step by step the illusory falsehood (or temporary truth), of the old habits of the human milieu; She was unlearning all the laws. An interesting subject matter for the disciples of Newton, Lavoisier, Claude-Bernard, Niels Bohr and all the tribe who have codified our whole blessed or cursed affair. I have a very strong impression that "one" wants us to learn something. Very strong.... She was uncovering step by step the illusory falsehood (or temporary truth), of the old habits of the human milieu; She was unlearning all the laws. An interesting subject matter for the disciples of Newton, Lavoisier, Claude-Bernard, Niels Bohr and all the tribe who have codified our whole blessed or cursed affair. I have a very strong impression that "one" wants us to learn something. Very strong. ...
... Anglo-India. And to crown all, it has found out that the Page 339 Extremists,—those bold, bad, dangerous men,—represent a party which consists only of themselves. This is a discovery worthy of Newton or Kepler and it has naturally filled Hare Street with delighted awe. An ordinary man might ask, of whom else should the party consist? But such criticism would be profane in the face of so much occult ...
... present man is to the animal below him. It is doubtful whether in the pure human mould Nature can go much farther than she has gone at present; that she can for instance produce a higher mental type than Newton, Shakespeare, Caesar or Napoleon, a higher moral type than Buddha, Christ or St Francis, a higher physical type than the Greek athlete or to give modern examples, a Sandow or a Ramamurti. She may seek ...
... though some of the interpretations may be misguided, its ultimate import must bear positively, as we shall later see, against the materialistic and mechanistic world-view which was in fashion after Newton had completed the traditional trend of thought about physical things. Grasping of Reality by Pure Thought Thanks to Einstein, the mind of man has found an hitherto unsuspected ...
... explorer who either discloses to us some new realm of experience on a higher plane or reveals a new Page 241 splendour in something that custom had made stale and void of savour. Newton, absorbed in his arid mathematical problems, must have been a sight without any colour and beauty but in Wordsworth's imagination he is transformed into a sailor: Voyaging through strange ...
... “Natural philosophy” – what we now call “science” – however controversial it may have become at present, seemed an almost miraculous discovery at the time of Galileo, Kepler and Newton. × Sri Aurobindo: A Dream of Surreal Science , in Collected Poems, p. 145. ...
... ‘Darwinism’ It is erroneous to associate evolution exclusively with Charles Darwin, although proclamations that “we live in the age of Charles Darwin” and comparisons of Darwin with Copernicus, Newton or Einstein are rife in the popularization of science as divulged by the media. To avoid being controversial they lean heavily on the tenets of scientific materialism, back up this official science ...
... be surprised or perturbed if one day I am reported to have declared, on the authority of "advanced" or even unadvanced Sadhaks, that Buddha was a poseur or that Shakespeare an overrated poetaster or Newton a third-rate college Don without any genius. In this world all is possible. Is it necessary for me to say that I have never thought and cannot have said anything of the kind, since I have at least ...
... utterance. That goes out of Page 185 all classifications and is unanalysable. Instances would include the most different kinds of style—Keats' "magic casements", Wordsworth's [ lines on ] Newton and his "fields of sleep", Shakespeare's "Macbeth has murdered sleep", Homer's descent of Apollo from Olympus, Virgil's "Sunt lachrimae rerum" and his "O passi graviora". 16 September 1934 You ...
... learned. One feels certain that admirable theories could be invented to account for the facts of gravitation if our intellects were not prejudiced and prepossessed by the anterior demonstrations of Newton. 1 This is the ever-perplexing and inherent plague of our reason; for it starts by knowing nothing and has Page 262 to deal with infinite possibilities, and the possible explanations ...
... Once again, Mother's experience coincides with modern science, which is beginning to discover that time and space are not fixed and INDEPENDENT quantities—as, from the Greeks right up to Newton, we had been accustomed to believe—but a four-dimensional system, with three coordinates of space and one of time, DEPENDENT UPON THE PHYSICAL PHENOMENA DEVELOPING THEREIN. Such is 'Riemann's Space ...
... point last: conversely, the asterism, in which the equinox takes place immediately before it occurs in another, is the one which in the normal order comes after it. This seeming anomaly is caused, as Newton explained, by the action or attraction of the planets, the sun and the moon on the earth's protuberant equatorial ring, so that daily the equinoctial points reach the meridian a little sooner than ...
... Wordsworth (Cambridge) 1938, p. 98. 159. Op. cit.. pp. 22-38. 160. Ibid., pp. 25, 26. Page 101 festations. But he does not wish his dogma to obtrude. It did not obtrude with Newton, or with Todd, or with that long tradition of eighteenth century imitation which took Milton as its matrix in sentiment and style. If it obtrudes on us it is because of our excessive concern with possible ...
... a thousand ships And burned the topless towers of Ilium? If we want the ideative side in prominence, we shall be very well served by Wordsworth's response at Cambridge to the statue of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. A masterly art is here, inspired and revelatory. While the "prism" ...
... "metaphysics" which in an older form he set out to banish when he threw overboard Newton's absolute space, time and motion. His ultimate attitude is thus more akin to that of Newton than Mr. Alvares realizes. And the kinship extends significantly to the free use of the word "God". Mr. Alvares is also quite in error in believing ...
... quantitative and experimental approach to a new science of matter is what makes him the forerunner of early modern scientists like Galileo, Francis Bacon, William Harvey, Nicolaus Copernicus and Isaac Newton 1 .This man was Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo's lifetime was a period of great cultural turmoil, marked by such notable events as the introduction of the printing press (1455), the discovery ...
... time is brushed aside as a meaningless futility comes back later with a meaning and suggestiveness and truth of reality. We were once laughing at the corpuscular theory of light advocated by the great Newton and putting on a patronising air at the frailty of an otherwise mighty intelligence. But the tables are now turned and we accept it as an undoubted fact when Planck says today that a light ray consists ...
... Mythic Age, 221 NACHIKETAS, 381 Napoleon, 7, 8.. 90, 1l5, 195,208,394 Nazism, 127 Nyaya,338 Neo-Realists,317 New Testament, the, 214, 244 Newton, 301, 308, 356 Nietzsche, 16, 18-19,21-24, 130,261, 272, 358 Nineveh, 91 ODIN, 201 Old Testament, the, 214, 244 Olympus, 201, 234 Osiris, 220 ...
... has become blurred during the past two hundred years. Implicit in all ancient philosophy, acknowledged by medieval scholastics and the natural philosophers of the Renaissance, and even by Locke and Newton, is a difference of kind...between wisdom and understanding. By wisdom was meant an intuitive apprehension of truth, and the attitude involved was receptive or contemplative! Intellectus was the ...
... mightiest effort of our intelligence has incomparably less effect on metabolism than the contraction of the biceps when this muscle lifts a weight of a few grams. The ambition of Caesar, the meditation of Newton, the inspiration of Beethoven, the passionate contemplation of Pasteur, did not modify the chemical exchanges of these great men as much as a few bacteria or a slight stimulation of the thyroid gland ...
... Sri Aurobindo had conceived of a national system of education, which had three important elements. Firstly, he made it clear that national education did not mean that we have to exile Galileo and Newton and all that came after and teach only what was known to Bhaskara, Aryabhatta and Varahamihira. But it means that an adequate place should be provided for the study of the noble heritage of our country ...
... Mother, The (La Mere), 228, 287n -Prieres et Meditations, 287n Mukherjee, Prabhat, 230 Mussolini, 274 NACHIKETAS, 19-20, 32-3, 35, 105 Naidu, Sarojini, 62n Nazism, 262 Newton, 300 Nietzsche, 126, 243, 297 North Pole, 27 Norway, 175 PAKISTAN, 267 Panis, 13 Parasara, 162 Pascal, Blaise, 107-13 -Le Pari, 110 -Les Provinciales, 112 Pasternak ...
... they strictly the result of calculation and deduction from known and observed data or are they not rather "brilliant surmises", "sudden revelations" that overwhelm by their un-expected appearance? Newton did not arrive at his Law of Gravitation in the trail of a logical argument from given premises towards unforeseen conclusions. Nor did Einstein discover his version of the Law in any syllogistic way ...
... had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo, even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous..." This discovery was the discovery of Yoga. The ancient seers made a distinction ...
... Supermind. When I spoke in Cambridge in Friends' Hall in 1955, I said to the audience, 'Yours is an old seat of learning, and it has the distinction of giving to the world great discoverers like Newton and Faraday and others. I have come to tell you that here, in this King's College, there was another distinguished discoverer, Sri Aurobindo, from India who laid bare the supramental level of co ...
... to the Supermind. In one of my lectures at the Friend's Hall at Cambridge,4 I said: " Yours is an old seat of learning. It has the distinction of giving to the world great discoverers like Newton and Faraday. I have come to tell you that here in King's College there was another distinguished discoverer, Sri Aurobindo, from India, who laid bare the Supramental level of Conscious- ___ ...
... exclusion of anything else. The veil is a certain memory or habit of being a shrew ... so, there are all the “laws” of the said charming mammal, laws as eternal and solemn as Jehovah himself or Mr Newton. True Matter is something else. It is without a veil and special spectacles. When we reach there, at that pure level — cleansed from the habit of being a certain man — there are no longer illnesses ...
... what is meant symbolically when one says that they ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge." Does anybody know whether the apple from the Tree of Knowledge the serpent gave to Eve and the apple Newton saw fall, were not one and the same? "The Tree of Knowledge," Mother said to Satprem, "symbolizes this kind of knowledge —no longer divine, you follow; the material knowledge that resulted from ...
... supramental movement is here, in the heart of all Nature. The supramental substance is there, just behind this false substance smothered by ten million mental, medical, logical and atavistic theorems, with Newton and all the rest of all the false gravity of our heads. On 29 February 1956, a true little pulsation began to palpitate in the cells of the world, or rather a first being endowed with a terrestrial ...
... color and the implacable gravitation of our own darkness. In reality, we live within an infinitely light and fluid and supple and incredible world— but we do not believe in it; we believe in death, in Newton, in Mendel’s laws and all the implacable equations of the doctors and judges of a little colored bubble they themselves have inflated. We follow the inexorable determinism of our own color and our ...
... books, priests, partisans, grandfather's cancer, great-uncle's lust, the good of this one, the less good of that one; there are the Tables of the Law of iron, the thou-cannots, thou-should-nots, Newton and the churches, Mendel and the law of gestation of germ cells – but what germinates in all that? Where is the Germ, the pure unexpected seed suddenly bursting open, the Thou-Can like a stroke ...
... yet 'Sri' Aurobindo, just Arabindo Babu. This Cambridge-educated young man seemed to have gathered into himself all the qualities and more of his illustrious predecessors like Bacon, Darwin, Milton, Newton, Wordsworth, all Cambridge men. Arabindo Babu's keen wit was more than a match for the subtle and daring policy of Curzon, who was a statesman of unusual genius. It was disturbing for the British ...
... it signify that we are to reject modern truth and modern method of science because they come to us from Europe and go back to the imperfect scientific knowledge of classical India, exile Galileo and Newton and all that came after and teach only what was known to Bhaskara, Aryabhatta and Varahamihira? Or how should the teaching of Sanskrit or the living indigenous tongues differ in kind and method from ...
... a way which misses the whole real point and has nothing whatever to do with the philosophy of art. He fastens on Mr. Havell's coupling of the master intuition of Buddha with the great intuition of Newton and objects to the parallel because the two discoveries deal with two different orders of knowledge, one scientific and physical, the other mental or psychic, spiritual or philosophic in nature. He ...
... not be surprised or perturbed if one day I am reported to have declared, on the authority of advanced or even unadvanced sadhaks, that Buddha was a poseur or Shakespeare an overrated poetaster or Newton a third-rate college Don without any genius. In this world all is possible. Is it necessary for me to say that I have never thought and cannot have said anything of the kind, since I have at least ...
... signify that we are to reject modern truth and modern method of science because they come to us from Europe, and go back to the imperfect scientific knowledge of classical India, exile Galileo and Newton and all that came after and teach only what was known to Bhaskara, Aryabhatta and Varahamihira? Or how should the teaching of Sanskrit or the living indigenous tongues differ in kind and method from ...
... the origin of the inspiration; but from the point of view of greatness one perfection may be said to be greater, though not more perfect than another. I would myself say that Wordsworth's line about Newton is greater, though not more perfect than many of those which you have put side by side with it. And this I say on the same principle as the comparison between Shakespeare and Racine: according to the ...
... far as the politician can indulge in other things as hobbies for his leisure hours, but if he wants to succeed as a politician he must give his best energies to politics. Conversely if Shakespeare or Newton had spent part of their energies in politics they would not have been able to reach such heights in poetry and in science or even if they had they would have done much less. The main energies have ...
... hear the name, sound or word by which the truth is expressed & immediately suggested to the knowledge; by ketu we distinguish a truth presented to us behind a veil whether of result or process, as Newton discovered the law of gravitation hidden behind the fall of the apple; by viveka we distinguish between various truths and are able to put them in their right place, order and relation to each other ...
... the heart & the satisfaction of the emotional being, as in ordinary religion, or by the working of the observation and the logical faculties as in ordinary Science or by intellectual revelation as Newton discovered gravitation or by spiritual intuition as in the methods of the great founders of religion or by a higher principle in us which sums up and yet transcends all these mighty channels of the ...
... finally attained.What were they, then?—vain imaginations of men? personifications of material realities? the idea of God behind phenomena? or even—for we know too little of the worlds, are still, as Newton was, children picking up pebbles on the shore of the infinite ocean of knowledge,—were there and are there—behind the names men give them—real personalities who stand in spirit behind the functions ...
... but the height seems in its own context not quite conscious of the empyrean it inhabits, while Wordsworth without referring to Eternity can give us in his picture of the mind of the scientist Newton a concrete "feel" of unknown spiritual widenesses: a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. And there is a dissimilarity in the way the spiritual substance ...
... to emerge. It was fostered by Francis Bacon, yet it may be said to have emerged in a recognisable form only with the advent of Galileo and to have reached a world stature, so to speak, not prior to Newton. Hand in hand with its development went the rise of a new Classicism - the Miltonic, the French and the pseudo-Augustan. And by the time this happened the tide of the Renaissance had started ebbing ...
... essence of convincingly perfect utterance. That goes out of all classification and is unanalysable. Instances would include the most different kinds of style—Keats' 'magic casements', Wordsworth's Newton and his 'fields of sleep', Shakespeare's 'Macbeth has murdered sleep', Homer's descent of Apollo from Olympus, Virgil's 'Sunt lacrimae rerum' and his 'O passi graviora'. "Homer's passage ...
... 197,256 Monk,F.F.,23,24,30 Moon, 115 "mortal god", 27,170,177 Mythology, Blake's, 221 Nature, 168,170,184 Neoplatonist tradition, 135,258 New Testament, The, 47 Newton, Newtonian science, 102,249, 258 Nicodemus, 40 Night, 8,184-87,191,192,196 Nimrod, 107 Nonesuch Press, ii Oaks, 83,194-95 "Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity" ...
... phanopoeiacally." (p. 282) Page 284 In Sethna's view, Wordsworth achieves phanopoeia of an extremely high order in the phrase he uses to describe the face of Newton in the statue of him at Cambridge: The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. And he adds praising the image employed here: "The ...
... history. The simple appeared first and then the complex. As time went by, higher and higher forms of life left their mark. And then Chambers made a scandalizing claim: if people could accept [since Newton] that God assembled the heavenly bodies by natural laws, ‘what is to hinder our supposing that the organic creation is also a result of natural laws, which are in like manner expressed by his will ...
... reality of what science tries to grasp, describe and understand is much more complex than science even accepts. The simple but crucial reason is that physical science has in Galileo, Descartes and Newton reduced reality to the realm of matter, declaring the other principles of what constitutes reality – life, mind, spirit – to be reducible to matter, or otherwise to be outside the sphere of interest ...
... material gains, but as the fulfilment of the promise, given to man at the commencement of his long journey through the centuries, that one day he would be even as God. Let us not forget that Isaac Newton, one of the most prominent names in the pantheon of modern science, has written more about alchemy and other occult matters than about his fundamental scientific discoveries, and so has Johannes Kepler ...
... that time one of my brothers, Maganbhai, was going to England from East Africa. I sent the list to my family according to the Mother's wish. These painting materials would be coming from Windsor and Newton Company. My brother would arrange to get them through our Agent, Mr. I. Kundle, there. The Mother saw and corrected my notes regarding spirituality and art in the diaries which she gave me every ...
... The fact is that there is in physics no immediate road to "intelligence" from the supersession of mechanism. In physics the mechanical model remains possible only so long as the belief of Galileo and Newton is valid that all physical events can be reduced to forces which act between particles along lines connecting the particles and which depend only on distance. This belief and nothing else is in physics ...
... is supposed to have been understood by only four people in the world. I came to understand something of it many years later. Perhaps I can give you a very short summary and put you among the wise. Newton said that all physical bodies attract one another, but he did not know why. Einstein came along and said: "They attract one another because they are all relatives." That is the theory of relativity ...
... ta, UI.2. 5 Ulrich Weisstein, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Bloomington, London, 1973, p. 32. 6 Joseph T. Shaw, "Literary Indebtedness and Comparative Literature", in, Newton P. Stallknecht and Horst Frenz, (eds.), Comparative Literature: Method and Perspective. University of South Illinois Press, 2nd ed. 1971. 7 Ibid, p. 21. 8 See, T. S. Eliot, "Reflections ...
... an impetus, and his daughter was immediately called to secure what came". Perhaps the most impressive confirmation is from one who lived with him and knew him most intimately in his last period. Newton in his Life says that the poet's widow, "being asked... who the Muse was, replied it was God's grace, and the Holy Spirit that visited him nightly". Here both the sleeping condition and the waking ...
... essence of convincingly perfect utterance. That goes out of all classilication and is unanalysable. Instances would include the most different kinds of style —Keats' 'magic casements', Wordsworth's Newton and his Page 100 'fields of sleep', Shakespeare's 'Macbeth has murdered sleep', Homer's descent of Apollo from Olympus, Virgil's 'Sunt lacrimae rerum' and his 'O passi graviora' ...
... of the past and the unfolding of the future? 28. And we may ask if there is a secret which we can educationally provide to the child whereby it can grow continuously and yet remain a child, like Newton, playing with pebbles on the shores of the ocean of knowledge. In other words, is there a secret of perpetual progress and of perpetual youth? 29. All these are fascinating questions, and we can ...
... through its own methods, the nature of the Ultimate Reality. During the last hundred years, science has crossed rapidly several horizons, and we are now in the presence of a situation where not only Newton, but even Einstein stands over-passed in many ways. When we study the findings of recent physicists like Louise de Broglie, Schrodinger, David Bohm and others, we feel in the presence of a Great Shift ...
... organisms is surely the human body, in which spirit and matter are so delicately and intricately put together to produce this strange being called "human". In the modern age, following Descartes and Newton, the human body was seen as a machine in a universe where everything was moving according to definite and intangible laws. The body was made of parts and each part had its own law of functioning. A ...
... India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo, even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous... " 1 This discovery was the discovery of Yoga. The ancient seers made a distinction ...
... and seekers who began to chart out a programme of inquiry, and it has been said that these seekers perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the thought of Newton and Galileo. Even the discovery of the inductive method in science was not more momentous. For they discovered, down to its ultimate processes, the method of yoga, and by the method of yoga reached ...
... Jumping into the silence Of an ancient pond! Yet the phenomenon of a frog jumping into a pond must have been seen by many others. Down through the ages and in the whole world, Watt and Newton cannot have been the only ones to notice the steam from a boiling kettle or observe an apple fall. Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not ...
... all-embracing Self and universal Reality. V During the last hundred years, science has crossed rapidly several horizons, and we are now in the presence of a situation where not only Newton, but even Einstein stands over-passed in many ways. When we study the finding of recent physicists like Louise de Broglie, Schrodinger, David Bohm and others, we feel in the presence of a Great Shift ...
... meaning of "national system". Even now, the phrase Page 16 "national system" connotes, to many, a system of the revival of the past and lessons in Chanakya and Bhaskaracharya in place of Newton and Einstein, in place of Mill and Rawls. In this sense the idea of national system comes to be rightly rejected. What is truly national? The true answer lies in the discovery and renascent formulation ...
... interesting books that may be prescribed for general reading: (i)Is there a secret which we can educationally provide to a child whereby it can grow continuously and yet remain a child, like Newton, playing with pebbles on the shores of the ocean of knowledge? (ii)Is there knowledge, as in the Chhandogya Upanishad, possessing which all can be known? (iii)Is there a subject, the study ...
... discovered a world within — within the soul of the child. Let us make no mistake about it; it was a genuine discovery of something as objective as America was to Columbus, or the Law of Gravitation to Newton. It is really this discovery which has made her famous, not her method. Her method is but the consequence other discovery as she herself makes clear. "It would be a great mistake," she says, "to ...
... surely greater than some years ago? NIRODBARAN: Was Dara at Aligarh University? PURANI: You seem to doubt it by your question. SRI AUROBINDO: He wrote an article when he was there. He said that Newton discovered the law of gravitation when the apple fell, but he, Dara, would have been busy eating it rather thinking out anything. NIRODBARAN: He has written a short drama about Cyclone and the ...
... towards the sun, he asked: SRI AUROBINDO: Why should it curve towards the sun? PURANI: Because the sun contains matter, they say. Suleiman is now questioning Einstein's theory. He stands for Newton. SRI AUROBINDO: Einstein's theory seems to me fantastic. (At this time some dogs were barking outside.) There, they are protesting against Einstein! ...
... Mother. Yes, the true physical. 18 So, with a sort of feeling of wonder, we are beginning to catch a glimpse of the physical world in which the laws of Falsehood no longer apply: the laws of Newton, the laws of gravity and ballistics, the laws... all the laws. And yet a physical world. There is no contact there, it cannot touch there, they are like "different worlds," yet it is the same world ...
... very center from where She drew the Shakti whenever She wanted to shake off Matteo’s fits of anger or Mathilde’s rebukes— the same vibration. Perhaps there is another way of vibrating that eludes Newton and all our laws. But we must learn the law of the “great wings." But let us emphasize right away that the point is not so much to start flying in the air as to get out of a suffocating machinery ...
... Moreover, science had changed the way men looked at the cosmos and, in consequence, the idea they made of its Maker. Copernicus had long been accepted, Galileo had discovered new heavenly bodies, and Newton’s laws suggested a universe hardly compatible with the Biblical stories of creation. Besides, scholars like Richard Simon had shown that the Bible, when philologically examined like any other literary ...
... Science, Materialism, Mysticism Probability in Microphysics: Einstein brought about in 1905 a tremendous revolution in physics when he dethroned Newton's concept of a universal static space and a time flowing uniformly everywhere - an absolute space and an absolute time in terms of which there could be a measurement of absolute motion. The principle... can be considered to be in causal dependence." Einstein showed that scientific apparatus, even if developed to the utmost perfection and given the most favourable circumstances, could never measure Newton's absolutes and he ruled that these absolutes, there- fore, should never be invoked as the cause of anything in physics. Twenty-two years later, Heisenberg brought about another revolution which... constitution of the universe is such that scientific observation will never reveal to us an electron having a simultaneous definite position and velocity any more than scientific observation will reveal Newton's absolutes. To suppose such an electron is to suppose something that has no connection with any mathematical formula we actually use in physics. If physics is to be physics and not meta- physics, the ...
... that everything could be per-fect-ly different. And there was no need to go far, it was enough to look at a bucket falling into a well... and to grasp an imperceptible gravitation which did not obey Newton's laws. Perhaps a psychic gravitation? I turned into the temple street; Nisha came and literally bumped into me. She blushed under her gleaming black skin and looked at me with I know not what glimmer ...
... which might lead to the explanation of the whole development of human speech. And indeed there was a coincidence & a discovery which might have been as important to human knowledge as the fall of Newton's apple and the discovery of gravitation. But this great possibility never flowered into actuality. On the contrary the after results were disappointingly meagre. One or two bye-laws of the modification ...
... other inhabitants of the intellect, by the brilliancy of imagination, by the fond thought that is only the image of our wish. The rationalist is right in distrusting intuition although it gave him Newton's theory of gravitation and most of the brilliant beginnings of Science & Free Thought,—right, yet not right; right from the standpoint of a scepticism that asks for intellectual certainty, wrong from ...
... themselves. They exist only through their effects: a beam of sunlight, which is an electromagnetic wave, strikes our retina and enables us to distinguish a flower; by means of gravitational waves, Newton's apple falls from the tree—but no one has lived the reality of those waves. The way Mother grasps reality, on the contrary, is first and foremost through lived experience. She is the movement, she ...
... life may become a burning brazier of love and adoration of the "Divine. V The burning brazier of aspiration is the primary requisite as far as the sadhak is concerned, but even as under Newton's Law action and reaction are always equal and opposite, it is the spiritual law too that, invariably, the ardour of the aspiration summons an appropriate or equivalent response of the Divine. In ...
... the typist, the composer with the revisions taking place at every stage; it cannot have any other validity or acceptability in an absolute sense. Otherwise we shall simply prove ourselves to be like Newton’s famous contemporary Richard Bentley, the classical scholar. He was five when Paradise Lost was published, in 1667. Later Bentley rewrote the poem entirely to his taste, thinking that it was the ...
... revolution since 1789, and Einstein was eighteen when Mirra turned nineteen. Like the pointillists, Max Planck was about to discover that light did not move sensibly at all, but in “little parcels." Newton’s apple was beginning to be seriously threatened, like a certain other apple that caused us to fall from paradise. And it is not over yet. Of course She was everyone’s favorite. They were all thirty ...
... There is the deeply poignant religious conviction of an early Sonneteer: All love is lost except on God alone. Wordsworth's greatest moment is that unfathomable phrase about Newton's bust at Cambridge with its silent face that is the marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. John Chadwick, "Arjava" to the inmates of Sri ...
... possibilities. It is a sure indication of Sri Aurobindo's centrality to our age that this happens to be a cornerstone of his theory of Man, Nature and God. It is said that The Bible, Newton's Principia Mathematica, Marx's Das Kapital, and Darwin's Origin of the Species rank among the most influential (if least read!) books of all time. The full title of Darwin's book spells ...
... experience of the divine spirit emerging as supraconsciousness is, on the other hand, based on his yogic vision, and is as plain and valid for him as an effect following a cause in the world of Newton's physics, or as life emerging from Matter in Darwin's world of biology. Purifications despite its sublime romanticism remains only a "fragment" compared with Sri Aurobindo's epic of the spirit ...
... from nothing. This is an example of how science, epitome of the rational and opponent of the mystical, accepts the undefinable, even as a basis of its theoretical constructs. (Another example was Newton’s gravity, exerting a magical action at a distance.) All the same, it must be said that serious science has never been comfortable with the explanation. Extrapolating backwards, from the known to the ...
... cannot hear without a telephone; that decides... everything. It decides everything. It decides illness and it decides death. It has already decided everything. It is mathematical and inescapable, like Newton's apple. Given this, you cannot do that. It is a whole cage, infallible, medical and irrefutable. Everything is logical. Sri Aurobindo changed logic and everything became... natural. Everything was ...
... makes you fall down: so there, you see! Imperturbably, innumerably, it provides you with all the denials, all the failures, all the defeats, all its proofs. We must be a little childish to contradict Newton's apple. We must be frightfully childish to want to get out of the web. We are too intelligent to be childish. And Mother was moving in this, bumping into one side, bumping into the other, plugging ...
... What prevents that? As always, the difficulty is not to find what must be done, but what must be undone, because the thing to be undone is invisible, like one's habits, as obvious and certain as Newton's apple. There is all the certainty of the laws of death to be undone, and where do they nest, these laws, prior to our putting them into equations? They must be nabbed in their nest. All the "obvious ...
... to pick out from Wordsworth his noblest music. Curiously enough the verses that equal them are just the two that also end with the same word's long rounded o and bell-like consonance — the lines on Newton's face in the bust at Cambridge: The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. And here it may be significant to mention that the terminal ...
... literature by Western Europe after the fall of Constantinople. But these expectations have remained unfulfilled. European knowledge has followed other paths and the seed of the nineteenth century has been Newton’s apple and not Sir William Jones’ Shakuntala or the first edition of the Vedas. The discovery of Sanscrit has, it is true, had a considerable effect on the so-called Sciences of Comparative Philology ...
... concept of the genes as the agents of evolution. In the history of science it is a common phenomenon that an important discovery is at once supposed to be determinant of everything else. (Examples are Newton’s gravitation and Einstein’s relativity.) This happened again when the structure of the DNA molecule, the double helix, was found out. With this discovery started the enormous expansion of microbiology ...
... student eyes, Explained was the immense Inconscient's scheme, Audacious lines were traced upon the Void; The Infinite was reduced to square and cube. 58 This is the world of the Newtons and the Einsteins. They try to capture the free rhythms of the infinite Consciousness into the syllogisms of finite thought. Imposing schemes of knowledge on the Vast They clamped to syllogisms ...
... TRANSITIONAL BEING.” It created a kind of revolution in my head, my heart, my life. Indeed, I could have ignored altogether that the earth was round and revolved around the sun, not to mention Newton's apple and the entire scientific, “enlightened” lot, and nothing would have been essentially different in my life; I would only have sailed more beautiful sailboats, on seas that were not more ...
... Four Yugas, in each of which one-quarter of the whole of reality is lost. It certainly feels as if we are living only in a quarter of reality. Blake had the same view of course, 'single vision and Newton's sleep' but the successive Page 218 loss of a quarter I had not previously seen set forth. Plato, Cabbala, Swedenborg, all know of the four 'worlds'. Perhaps we are beginning the reascent ...
... The intention is perhaps only to bring into discussion the contextual aspect; it cannot have validity or acceptability in any absolute sense. Otherwise we shall simply prove ourselves to be like Newton's famous contemporary Richard Bentley, the classical scholar. He was five when Paradise Lost was published in 1667. Later Bentley rewrote the poem entirely to his taste, thinking that it was the ...
... miracle! But from the supramental point of view, it wouldn't be a miracle at all, it would be the most normal thing. Indeed, there is nothing “miraculous” in all that, it is no more miraculous than Newton's apple falling at a certain speed. But, as we said, at a certain speed and in relation to a certain frame of reference. And this is where Mother's corporeal experiences link up with Einstein's physics ...
... have fever the next day, and the fever left him! I was so surprised and impressed that I decided to master the secrets of this science. It was a very small incident, apparently as insignificant as Newton's apple. That was when I Page 146 began practising Pranayama. It was in 1904. I pursued my yogic training and my nationalistic activities side by side on my own. For almost four years I ...
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