BEAUTY MEMORY ENTROPY

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Beauty

Beauty is a power that we should reinvest with our own purpose. Felix Gonzalez-Torres

 

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads. Pablo Picasso

 

The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.' Richard Rogers

 

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. Edgar Allan Poe

 

The good is the beautiful. Plato

 

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. Johan Huizinga

 

 

Memory

Memories are motionless, and the more securely they are fixed in space, the sounder they are.  Gaston Bachelard

 

One who cannot remember can hardly imagine because memory is the soil of imagination. Memory is also the ground of self-identity; we are what we remember.  Juhani Pallasmaa

 

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.  Arthur M. Schlesinger

 

Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional. Dana Spiotta

 

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. Elie Wiesel

 

Time moves in one direction, memory in another. William Gibson

 

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning. Tony Buzan

 

 

Entropy

Entropy is the quantitative measure of disorder in a system. Appearing initially during the 19th century in the context of the then emerging field of thermodynamics, the notion of entropy has subsequently been adapted to other areas of knowledge including psycho-dynamics, thermos-economics, evolution, the social sciences and , notably, cybernetics and information theory. If the first law of thermodynamics articulates the principle of conservation of energy, confirming that energy can be transformed but not created or destroyed, the second law of thermodynamics states that in a closed system, entropy, that is the state of loss of heat, energy, or order in that system, will remain constant or increase.

Allesandra Ponte

 

Only entropy comes easy. Anton Chekhov

 

We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy. Geoffrey West

 

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.  Rudolf Arnheim

 

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. Michael Polanyi