[A]
Ambiguity,
The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas. –Abe Tannenbaum
[D]
Design,
A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who want to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer, but what should a man do who wants something in between? –Robert Mysil, The Man Without Qualities
[E]
Enlightenment,
People who care about science, care about rationality, who want to raise the level of science literacy and education -we've got to stop ignoring the fundamental reality of who we are, how we think and gather information. We've got to give up on the Enlightenment idea ...that truth triumphs. –Chris Mooney
Error,
A man's errors are his portals of discovery. –James Joyce
Expert,
They could no longer trust their own perceptions, because the earth that seemed static was actually in rapid motion. They were increasingly encouraged to have their own ideas, but they were more and more in thrall to modern "experts" who alone could decipher the nature of things. Human adult, however, continue to enjoy playing with different possibilities, and, like children, we go on creating imaginary world. —Karen Armstrong
[G]
Genesis,
Creation Stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientific valid, you have bad science and bad religion. —Karen Armstrong
[I]
Imagination,
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Information,
As our experience of the world has become more complex and nuanced, the demands to our thinking aids have increased proportionally. Diagrams, data graphics, and visual confections have become the language we resort to in this abstract and complex world. They help us understand, create, and completely experience reality. —Data Flow, page 5.
[K]
Knowledge,
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. —Karl Popper
[L]
Language,
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language. —Werner Heisenberg
[M]
Media,
We tend to look at static media as if they were fixed, final and self-evident things. They are not. They are not self-evident. They are provocations for performance. Every act of reading performs a work. It makes the work. It constitutes the work. When we look at a page, when we read it, this is what we're doing Ð we're making associations, and connections; we are constituting the text through the act of reading.—Johanna Drucker
[R]
Reality,
If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility. —Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities