Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believes that certain attempts to pierce the mystery of things are conducted backward: "Instead of using what we can guess at about the nature of thought to explain the nature of music, start over again. Begin with music and see what this can tell us about the sensation of thinking." He recommends an experiment, enlisting Johann Sebastian Bach to support his hypothesis: "Put on The St. Matthew Passion and turn the volume up all the way. That is the sound of the whole central nervous system of human beings, all at once...
...Haven to consider ideas; then he spent the weekends writing his column longhand on ruled pads, finishing it by the time he was ready to drive home on Sunday night. "I wrote three or four pieces this way," says Thomas. "Then I called Ingelfinger and told him that I thought I had done enough. He said that he wanted me to continue and persuaded me that I should, so I did." Very shortly afterward, Thomas' column began attracting a cult of pass-along readers. The evolution that led to The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa...
Some intelligence or other knows how to get rid of warts, and this is a disquieting thought...
Sophomore seven seat Janice Nevin agreed. "We have four sophomores and two juniors in the boat--we're still very young. I thought we rowed a good race...
...with this sense of drama that Alexander Woodcock and Monte Davis hail the arrival of catastrophe theory, a methodology as different from traditional science as Marxism was from existing economic thought. Since its formulation around 1964, catastrophe theory has emerged as one of few mathematical breakthroughs in recent times to arouse public interest. The controversy lies in its claim to have broadened the scope of science to include the social sciences and humanities, uniting such diverse phenomena as the collapse of a bridge, the crash of the stock market, and the fall of the Roman empire. Yet its subject...