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Or Support Humanity’s Short-Sighted Greed

Posted in Environment, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , on September 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
    —    Carl Sagan
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A Universe More Rational Than Our Species

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

In its relentless ascent toward complexity, the universe has given rise to man, endowed with consciousness and intelligence.  Stardust coalesced to trigger the spark of life and cause the appearance of a living being capable of comprehending the cosmos.  Poets have sung its beauty, artists have painted it harmony, but it fell to scientists to unveil its mysteries and reveal to us this truly miraculous fact:  We live in a rational universe ruled by very precise laws that can be perceived and analyzed by human reasoning.
    —    Trinh Xuan Thuan
From:  “Chaos and Harmony:  Perspectives on Scientific Revolutions of the Twentieth Century“
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Why More People Should Try Gardening

Posted in Philosophy, Proverbs, Quotes, tagged , , , , , on October 24, 2024| Leave a Comment »

To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.
    –     Oglala Sioux proverb
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Just Humming Along…

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , on June 17, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.
    —     Suzy Kassem
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Find Your Infinitesimal Part

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , on May 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »

To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods.  He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.
    —     William O. Douglas
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Three In One

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , on September 8, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
    —     Mahatma Gandhi
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Three Or Four Elements

Posted in Education, Guitar, Music, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 7, 2021| Leave a Comment »

I have been learning to play guitar since January of this year.  Although I’ve always liked music and songs, I’ve never given much thought to what music is.  I mean, I’ve always considered it as “sound” (in a physics sense), but learning to “play” music (make sounds) has turned into a deep and enriching exercise in itself.  Last night, I read someone’s definition of “music” as a combination of three things:  rhythm, melody and harmony.  I thought this was interesting, so, today I went on Google and Wikipedia to see what they had to say about it…
There seems to be a (little / minor) disagreement about what “makes” music.  Most of what I read agrees with the three parts above, but I also found other sources which added a fourth:  dynamics.
This is my simplistic understanding of each:
1)  Rhythm:  the beat and speed of the sound(s);
2)  Melody:  the grouping of the sounds (typically making it – the “music” – distinctively memorable) into start, order and ending;
3)  Harmony:  the mixing of sounds for effect (happy / sad, blending / discordant); and,
4)  Dynamics:  how loud or quietly / soft or hard something sounds.
I’m sure any readers who are “real” musicians will find my explanation / understanding of these elements of music simplistic, and I’m okay with that.  LoL!  I think it’s amusing (amazing) I’ve enjoyed music my whole life, but never thought about ANY of this.  And, to be honest, I have large blind spots about most things under “arts and culture”.  I know I don’t know about them, but I have no idea how much I don’t know about them.  It’s fun starting to learn!
C’est la vie…
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The Heart Of Science

Posted in Environment, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 18, 2021| Leave a Comment »

We have found that scientific laws pervade all of nature, that the same rules apply on Earth as in the skies, that we can find a resonance, a harmony, between the way we think and the way the world works…
As a boy Kepler had been captured by a vision of cosmic splendor, a harmony of the worlds which he sought so tirelessly all his life.  Harmony in this world eluded him.  His three laws of planetary motion represent, we now know, a real harmony of the worlds, but to Kepler they were only incidental to his quest for a cosmic system based on the Perfect Solids, a system which, it turns out, existed only in his mind.  Yet from his work, we have found that scientific laws pervade all of nature, that the same rules apply on Earth as in the skies, that we can find a resonance, a harmony, between the way we think and the way the world works.
When he found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts, he preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.  That is the heart of science.
    —    Carl Sagan
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Times Change

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes;  he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.
    ―    Niccolò Machiavelli
From:  “The Prince“
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