¶ Nature Has No Separate Departments
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Nature Has No Separate Departments:
"When I grew older I was intrigued with the geometry of mathematics and I kept thinking a lot about the alleged ineffability of the so-called fourth dimension. When I left Harvard and went into the Navy I remember saying to myself, “If nature has a department of physics, a department of chemistry, a department of biology, and a department of mathematics it would have to have meetings of all department heads in order to decide what to do when I throw an apple core into the water. The omni-departmentalization seems too awkward a system. I think nature has only one department and I think she has one comprehensive coordinate system to interaccommodate any and all events, and that system is probably rational as nature’s chemical associating and disassociating is all done with whole, low order numbers.”
¶ Citations
- RBF marginalia in old Chap. 2, “Synergy,” I.11, 18 Mar’69
