By the Late John Brockman (13 page)

  
13.
Wallace Stevens, “The Latest Freed Man,” in
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), p. 205. “To be without description of to be.”

  
14.
Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,” Ibid., p. 389. “The final elegance . . .
plainly to propound.”

  
15.
Stevens, “The Sail of Ulysses,” in
Opus Posthumous
, p. . “Of gods and . . . which they symbolized.”

  
16.
Jeans, op. cit., p. 49. “All the pictures . . . are mathematical pictures.”

  
17.
Niels Bohr, op. cit., p. 68. “a refinement of . . . imprecise or cumbersome.”

  
18.
Ibid. “Just by avoiding . . . for objective description.”

  
19.
Stevens, “The Man with the Blue Guitar,” in
Collected Poems
, p. 183. “Throw away the . . . the rotted names.”

  
20.
Jeans, op. cit., p. 173. “We need no . . . of the moment.”

  
21.
Ibid., p. 174. “exists in a . . . the ultimate reality.”

  
22.
Niels Bohr, “Dialectica I,” 318, quoted in Richards, “Complementary Complementarities,”
p. 36. “Our task can . . . its strict definition.”

  
23.
Whitehead, op. cit., p. 19. “There are no . . . ill-defined and ambiguous.”

  
24.
Brillouin, op. cit., p. 52. “The model need . . . we observe it.”

  
25.
Max Born,
Experiment and Theory in Physics
(New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1956), p. 39. “A physical quantity . . . and
measure it.”

  
26.
Jeans, op. cit., p. 172. “The making of . . . away from reality.”

  
27.
Stevens, “Adagia,” p. 168. “the word must be the thing it represents.”

  
28.
Whitehead, op. cit., p. 43. “the notion of . . . is completely abandoned.”

  
29.
Ibid. “An actual entity . . . lost sight of.”

  
30.
Wallace Stevens,
The Necessary Angel
(New York: Random House, Inc., 1951), p. 122. “The poet and his subject are inseparable.”

  
31.
Richards, “Spring,” op. cit., p. 21. “Before the birth . . . Are both undone!”

  
32.
J. Andrade e Silva and G. Lochak,
Quanta
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969), p150. “To measure is to disturb.”

  
33.
Brillouin, op. cit., p. 43. “We used to . . . stopped observing it.”

  
34.
Whitehead, op. cit., p. 7. “we can never catch the world taking a holiday.”

  
35.
Ibid. “the method of . . . observation, breaks down.”

  
36.
Sir James Jeans,
The New Background of Science
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1959), p. 2. “Each observation destroys
. . . become past history.”

  
37.
Brillouin, op. cit., p. 52. “We cannot abstract . . . a mixed crowd.” “absolutely
renounce . . . objective real world.”

  
38.
Jeans, op. cit., p. 287. “our observation of nature, and not nature itself.”

  
39.
Brillouin, op. cit., p. 50. “Experiments are the only elements which really count.”

  
40.
Werner Heisenberg,
Physics and Philosophy
(New York: Harper & Row, 1958), p. 186. “The elementary particles . . . things and
facts.”

  
41.
Andrade e Silva and Lochak, op. cit., p. 148 (quoting Goethe). “Do not look . . .
up the doctrine.”

  
42.
Stevens,
Necessary Angel
, p. 95. “To confront fact . . . Of the thing.”

  
43.
Stevens, “Life on a Battleship,” in
Opus Posthumous
, p. 79. “We approach a society / Without a society.”

  
44.
Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,” op. cit., p. 383. “The first idea was
not our own.”

  
45.
Wittgenstein,
Zettel
, p. 58e, para. 315. “Why do you . . . are at present.”

  
46.
Ibid., p. 199e, para. 687. “Why is a . . . than a tautology.”

  
47.
Stein, op. cit., p. 11. “Knowledge is the . . . you do know.”

  
48.
Max Born, quoted in Brillouin, op. cit., p. 36. “Concepts which refer . . . of physical
continuity.”

  
49.
Ibid., p. 35. “An infinitely small . . . space and time.”

  
50.
Jeans, op. cit., p. 294. “events must be . . . fundamental objective constituents.”

  
51.
P. W. Bridgman,
The Way Things Are
(New York: Viking Press, 1959), p. 3. “analysis in terms of doings or happenings.”

  
52.
Jeans,
Mysterious Universe
, p. 118. “Nature is such . . . any experiment whatsoever.”

  
53.
Wittgenstein,
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
, p. 143, para. 6.362. “What can be described can also happen.”

  
54.
Stevens, “The Man on the Dump,” in
Collected Poems
, p. 203. “Where was it one first heard of the truth? The the.”

  
55.
Eliot, “Four Quartets,” op. cit., p. 132. “The past has . . . Or even development.”

  
56.
Bohr, op. cit., p. 7. “No pictorial interpretation . . . relations between observations.”

  
57.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969), p. 65. “One picture of . . .
the butterfly stage.”

  
58.
Andrade e Silva and Lochak, op. cit., p. 157. “to know is to measure.”

  
59.
Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” op. cit., p. 7. “Do I dare to eat a
peach?”

  
60.
Eliot, “Four Quartets,” op. cit., p. 139. “If you came . . . or carry report.”

  
61.
Sir Arthur Eddington,
The Philosophy of Physical Science
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1958), p. 31. “Physical knowledge is . . .
actual or hypothetical.”

  
62.
Brillouin, op. cit., p. 10. “The study of . . . that of scarcity.”

  
63.
William Empson, “Value Is in Activity,” in
Collected Poems
(New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1949), p. 4. “Value is in activity.”

  
64.
Brillouin, op. cit., p. 100. “Only the final sum matters.”

  
65.
Eddington, op. cit., p. 142. “Physical science consists . . . impenetrable mathematical
symbol.”

  
66.
Stevens, “The Man with the Blue Guitar,” in
Collected Poems
, p. 183. “And say of . . . the rotted names.”

  
67.
Wittgenstein,
Zettel
, pp. 12-13e, paras. 57-58. “finding to show . . . in our language.”

  
68.
C. G. Jung, VII
Sermones Ad Mortuous
(London: Stuart & Watkins) “that hallowed and . . . the same time.”

  
69.
Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,” op. cit., p. 387. “a form to . . . in
the word.”

  
70.
Stevens, “The Man on the Dump,” op. cit., p. 203. “Is it peace . . . On the dump.”

  
71.
Wittgenstein, op. cit., p. 17e, para. 88. “It is very . . . never interests us.”

  
72.
Ibid., p. 35e, para. 198. “Can I think . . . it does not?”

  
73.
Whitehead,
Process and Reality
, p. 44. “The actual occasions are . . . ground of obligation.”

  
74.
Ibid. “express the definiteness . . . ingression is realized.”

  
75.
Brillouin, op. cit., p. 49. “Any absolute statement . . . can be valid.”

  
76.
Eliot, “Four Quartets,” op. cit., p. 145. “costing not less than everything.”

  
77.
Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Ibid., pp. 4-5. “Do I dare / Disturb
the universe?”

  
78.
Stevens, “Solitaire Under the Oaks,” in
Opus Posthumous
, p. 111. “In the oblivion . . . trees, completely released.”

  
79.
Stevens, “Life on a Battleship,” op. cit., p. 79. “The part / Is the equal of the
whole.”

  
80.
Whitehead, op. cit., p. 53. “There is a . . . from common sense.”

  
81.
Ibid. “There is a . . . continuity of becoming.”

  
82.
Eliot, “Four Quartets,” op. cit., p. 138. “This is the . . . in time’s covenant.”
“Where is the . . . Zero summer.”

  
83.
Stein, op. cit., p. 169. “No matter how . . . was no repetition.”

  
84.
Empson, “This Last Pain,” op. cit., p. 33. “Feign then what’s . . . from a despair.”

  
85.
Fuller, op. cit., pp. 62-3. “Physical experiments have . . . metaphysical, is finite.”

  
86.
Empson, “Doctrinal Point,” op. cit., p. 39. “All physics one . . . of the description.”

  
87.
Eddington, op. cit., p. 32. “Progress so far . . . unobserved and observable.”

  
88.
Jeans,
Mysterious Universe
, p. 176. “Most men find . . . an imperishable universe.”

  
89.
Whitehead, op. cit., p. 17. “Every proposition proposing . . . for the fact.”

  
90.
Wittgenstein, Zettel, pp. 120-21e, para. 695. “Understanding a commission . . . got
to do.”

  
91.
Jeans, op. cit., p. 172. “The final truth . . . is at fault.”

  
92.
Stevens, “Description Without Place,” in
Collected Poems
, p. 344. “Description is revelation . . . nor false facsimile.”

  
93.
Eliot, “Four Quartets,” op. cit., p.144. “Every phrase and . . . to the block.”

  
94.
Ibid. p. 126. “hope would be hope for the wrong thing” . . . “love would be love
of the wrong thing.”

  
95.
Stevens, “Adagia,” Opus, p. 164. “The exquisite environment . . . not realized before.”

  
96.
Eliot, “Four Quartets,” op. cit., p. 122. “Ridiculous the waste . . . before and
after.”

  
97.
I. A. Richards, “The Status of the Mentionable,” in
Goodbye Earth and Other Poems
(New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1958), p. 29. “Hill, cloud, field . . . And must.”

  
98.
Stein, op. cit., p. 172. “Anybody can be . . . at all important.”

  
99.
Richards, “To Dumb Forgetfulness,” op. cit., p. 52. “Forget, forget . . . dead be
dead .”

100.
Richards, “The States of the Mentionable,” op. cit., p. 29. “Will, doubt, desire
. . . To naught.”

101.
Richards, “To Be,” op. cit. p. 25. “still missing it . . . what, none know.”

102.
Wittgenstein, Logico-Philosophicus, p. 113, para 5.556. “There cannot be . . . we
ourselves construct.”

103.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Notebooks, 1914-16
(New York: Harper & Row, 1969), p. 52, para. 27.5.15. “what cannot be expressed we
do not express.”

104.
Whitehead, op. cit., p. 44. “A multiplicity merely . . . its individual members.”

105.
Stevens, “The Man with the Blue Guitar,”
Collected Poems
, p. 171. “It is the chord that falsifies.”

106.
Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” op. cit., p. 92. “A man and . . .
blackbird / Are one.”

107.
Bertrand Russell, quoted in Jeans,
The New Background of Science
, p. 295. “Not a persistent . . . than fleeting thoughts.”

108.
Jeans, Ibid. “Matter of solid . . . of human spectacles.”

109.
Whitehead, op. cit., p. 20. “No language can . . . to immediate experience.”

110.
Empson, “Doctrinal Point,” op. cit., p. 39. “the duality of . . . unconsciousness
of foreknowledge.”

111.
Richards, “The Ruins,” op. cit., p. 44. “So which way’s . . . All idle theory.”

112.
William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming,” in
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
(New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960), p. 184. “Things fall apart.”

113.
Empson, “Letter V,” op. cit., p. 41. “You are a metaphor and they are lies.”

114.
Richards, “Not No,” op. cit., p. 21. “Not mine this life that must be lived in me.”

115.
Wittgenstein,
Zettel
, p. 40e, para. 220. “Do you look . . . your own breast.”

116.
Stevens, “The Man on the Dump,” op. cit., pp. 202-3. “One beats and . . . Be merely
oneself?”

117.
Eliot, “Four Quartets,” op. cit., p. 114. “A people without . . . Of timeless moments.”

118.
John McHale, correspondence. See McHale, John,
The Future of the Future
(New York: George Braziller, 1969). “Ahistory: Amen.”

119.
Eliot, “Four Quartets,” op. cit., p. 117. “All time is eternally present.”

120.
Ibid., p. 129. “Here and there . . . a deeper communion.”