I promised I would talk about practical applications for science based on observing the world in its own language. (This is commonly called phenomenological science, but I’m trying to find a simpler […]
The science based on Darwin holds that plants evolve over time to fit various ecological niches. This bunchgrass, for example, evolved to take advantage of hot, windy climates. The science based on […]
Just look at this aspen pouring up into the sun. Aspen Copse with Beetle-Killed Fire Pine, Big Bar Lake My sister. To Newtonian science, this is an image of organized physical processes viewed by […]
Yesterday I spoke about the social nature of the scientific systems of both Darwin and Goethe and how their examples gave us the freedom to choose new paths of science to match […]
Darwin is English. Goethe is German. There have been wars over this. Pity. Let me explain. First, an image of multiplicity from the former East Germany: Goethe’s Botanical Garden in Jena, Germany […]
I’d like to talk ethics today, with East Germany in view, though, because it was a society that allowed an alternate vision, not only of what might have been possible (good and bad), but into […]
I’ve been trying to say something useful about Goethe this week, which is a tough thing to do with a writer who was used for nationalist purposes ever since his youth in […]
I will now try to do what even the Goethe Museum in Weimar fails at splendidly, despite putting on a big show and charging something like 10 Euros to see it, which is […]
Yesterday, I pointed out parts of the scientific colour theory of the poet, statesman and early scientist Goethe. That theory is based on the belief that a science built from a foundation of […]
In the northern fringe of the Intermontane Grassland of the West, the grass mingles with water and trees. Oregon Grape, Kalamalka Lake Here’s another view: The earth generates colour here on contact with light […]
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