"...A body entering a black hole, particle by particle, becomes a stream of matter..."
Tom Wolfe said it much more deliciously:
Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.
“We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.” - Norbert Wiener, mathematician
Also:
“Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointilist landscape made of tiny living beings.” - Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
You die. You're dead.
Youre not the wind that blows, you're not the sky that snows.
You're dead. Forever.
Tom Wolfe said it much more deliciously:
Also:
“Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointilist landscape made of tiny living beings.” - Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
Also also! http://symphonyofscience.com/
Fuck architecture.