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Michio Kaku
"Studying the impossible"
"Ironically, the serious study of the impossible has frequently opened up rich and entirely unexpected domains of science. For example, over the centuries the frustrating and futile search for a 'perpetual motion machine' led physicists to conclude that such a machine was impossible, forcing them to postulate the conservation of energy and the three laws of thermodynamics. Thus the futile serch to build perpetual motion machines helped to open up the entirely new field of thermodynamics, which in part laid the foundation of the steam engine, the machine age, and modern industrial society" (Physics of the Impossible, pg xiv). By Dr. James Marshall "Learning with Technology"
"Learning changes the brain anatomically; with each new stimulation, experience, and behavior, it can rewire itself. Because we are all raisied in different environments with different experiences, each brain is unique. Even identical twins don't have identical brains.
In the 1960s, various researchers showed the the environment can substantially influence the architecture of the brain. marian Diamond (1967), a neuroanatomist at the University of California at Berkeley, found that the brain can literally grow new connections with stimulation from the environment, thus allowing for better brain cell communication and improved learning" (The Process of Learning, pg 5).
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"One of my pet stories is of the great cathedral of Chartres, which was bulit on the town square so that the market was right outside its doors. Many people take as a mark of piety of the cathedral's builders the fact that the floor inclines as you go toward the altar, as if you are rising to heaven.
I say that's nonsense. It's right on the marketplace, and when it rained I'm sure everything in the market went inside -- all the chickens and pigs and everything else. I think it slopes because they had to hose it down afterward. That's one of my favorite images of the sacred and secular being fused. And that is what we are trying to bring about again -- that nature blending of this place and the community." (Dean Morton) |
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