The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
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If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
The world is in motion, as it seems.
To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.
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