To the Cicero quote: visiting my mom almost daily in the senior center, I see some people for whom it is exactly so. Especially the over-90s. There are many Christians there; in Christianity death is a joyful coming home to God - at least, that's how my mom sees it, and I'm very happy for her that she does (and for me; I don't think I could handle death-dread at the moment).
Why is that a problem? Math is beautiful and if people can be painters, finding and creating beauty with paint, why can't people find and create beauty with numbers and math? While they do, they will enviably stumble upon truths about our universe, how it all fits together and all works, and how creative our Creator really is.
Doesn't this point to the bigger question of what we want our society to value and become? Is our value only the sum of our applicability or is it a sum of all what we are, who we are? Would a better tally not be what beauty we have brought to the world? Or the love/connections we have with others?
Does not true functionality come from true beauty? What is we, as a society, shifted to finding the function/application in or FROM the form/ beauty? What would that society look like?
As for funding, isn't that what billionaires are for? Billionaires, pick two or three areas you are interested in and fund them for the rest of your life with no expectations of a "product." Seek, cultivate, encourage, and celebrate the beauty of discovery and creativity for their own sake.
The quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquis is tells truly that people age faster trying to pursue their dreams,it is the opposite I believe that pursuing your dreams that you love so much deeply keeps you happy and alive & young ,at least at heart even if your age is advancing.
Quote #5,That a society, that disregards the values of an individual which he is entitled to ,doesn’t have respect for that individual hence denies his dignity,that society doesn’t know what freedom is.
To the Cicero quote: visiting my mom almost daily in the senior center, I see some people for whom it is exactly so. Especially the over-90s. There are many Christians there; in Christianity death is a joyful coming home to God - at least, that's how my mom sees it, and I'm very happy for her that she does (and for me; I don't think I could handle death-dread at the moment).
To the Eric Temple Bell quote:
Why is that a problem? Math is beautiful and if people can be painters, finding and creating beauty with paint, why can't people find and create beauty with numbers and math? While they do, they will enviably stumble upon truths about our universe, how it all fits together and all works, and how creative our Creator really is.
Doesn't this point to the bigger question of what we want our society to value and become? Is our value only the sum of our applicability or is it a sum of all what we are, who we are? Would a better tally not be what beauty we have brought to the world? Or the love/connections we have with others?
Does not true functionality come from true beauty? What is we, as a society, shifted to finding the function/application in or FROM the form/ beauty? What would that society look like?
As for funding, isn't that what billionaires are for? Billionaires, pick two or three areas you are interested in and fund them for the rest of your life with no expectations of a "product." Seek, cultivate, encourage, and celebrate the beauty of discovery and creativity for their own sake.
The quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquis is tells truly that people age faster trying to pursue their dreams,it is the opposite I believe that pursuing your dreams that you love so much deeply keeps you happy and alive & young ,at least at heart even if your age is advancing.
Quote #5,That a society, that disregards the values of an individual which he is entitled to ,doesn’t have respect for that individual hence denies his dignity,that society doesn’t know what freedom is.