In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math and science.
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.
One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.
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