Timeline, Michael Crichton
8/01
Interesting book about the possibilities of Quantum theory. Takes place on a river in France in Bath, modern and medieval times, but this is made into more.
Wednesday, August 15, 2001
Wednesday, August 1, 2001
Book: Travels
Travels, Michael Crichton
8/01
An amazing book divided into 3 parts: Med School, travels around the world, and inward travel (read physic explorations).
Great to hear about places he wanted to go and how he learned about himself when he was there. He comments that when things got tough he traveled, not because he was running away from these problems, but because it allowed him to gain perspective on them.
Perhaps the most influential chapter is the last where he argues to scientists who believe physic studies are foolish and a waste of time that they are a study like art and are important. He reminds us that scientists only explain how something works, not why it works. Excellent book.
Notes:
Left Medicine because he felt doctors are not treating people, only disease.
“In self analysis the danger of incompleteness is particularly great. One is too soon satisfied with a part explanation” – Freud
“Existence is beyond the power of words to define” – Lau-Tzu
“What you see is what you see” – Frank Stella
Visits Banaine, Dutch Island fifty mi. off the cost of Venezuela. A sharp mountain peak with shear sides, 20ft beach then drop dives to see a deep sunken freighter
Visits Baltistan in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mtns, the highest mountain range west of the Himalaya, has K2, 10 of 30 highest mountains.
Visits Hunza (country?) [- Likely Hunza Valley, near Gilgit in Pakistan.]
Dives off Rangiroa, one hour from Papecte around in Tahiti.
Men are the romantics, it is impractical to women to be romantic, bottom-line, and the best way to think about men and women is to assume there are no differences.
Says “The difficulty w. making theories, observations may not be wrong, but the conclusions drawn may be” after the tape story in the hotel.
Read Steven Halking, A Short History of Time
Read Richard Feynman
8/01
An amazing book divided into 3 parts: Med School, travels around the world, and inward travel (read physic explorations).
Great to hear about places he wanted to go and how he learned about himself when he was there. He comments that when things got tough he traveled, not because he was running away from these problems, but because it allowed him to gain perspective on them.
Perhaps the most influential chapter is the last where he argues to scientists who believe physic studies are foolish and a waste of time that they are a study like art and are important. He reminds us that scientists only explain how something works, not why it works. Excellent book.
Notes:
Left Medicine because he felt doctors are not treating people, only disease.
“In self analysis the danger of incompleteness is particularly great. One is too soon satisfied with a part explanation” – Freud
“Existence is beyond the power of words to define” – Lau-Tzu
“What you see is what you see” – Frank Stella
Visits Banaine, Dutch Island fifty mi. off the cost of Venezuela. A sharp mountain peak with shear sides, 20ft beach then drop dives to see a deep sunken freighter
Visits Baltistan in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mtns, the highest mountain range west of the Himalaya, has K2, 10 of 30 highest mountains.
Visits Hunza (country?) [- Likely Hunza Valley, near Gilgit in Pakistan.]
Dives off Rangiroa, one hour from Papecte around in Tahiti.
Men are the romantics, it is impractical to women to be romantic, bottom-line, and the best way to think about men and women is to assume there are no differences.
Says “The difficulty w. making theories, observations may not be wrong, but the conclusions drawn may be” after the tape story in the hotel.
Read Steven Halking, A Short History of Time
Read Richard Feynman
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