
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/nature-through-microscope-and-camera-1909/
“No matter how clearly we can see an object, there is something about the physical act of reproducing and interpreting it visually: in making marks, we infuse meaning into each element of the structure before us.”

Source: Ramón y Cajal and the Case for Drawing in Science – SA Visual – Scientific American Blog Network
“Time perception matters because it is the experience of time that roots us in our mental reality.”Given my soft spot for famous diaries Source: Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We Age, and Gets Warped on Vacation | Brain Pickings
Thomas Edison Kinetoscope films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=they7m6YePo
“I’m not an artist now, I’m a physicist, one who is at ease with images and the fact that science is images. Geometry is images or figures or relations between figures. Mechanics requires pictures that move.”
“In your book, The Origin of Life Circus: A How To Make Life Extravaganza, you interview Rockefeller University physicist Albert Libchaber, who said life is geometry because geometry is physical. I wrote down this line because this is correct. And geometry is macroscopic. Geometry you see it and you pick up a pencil and you draw it. It has nothing to do with chemistry or genes. Zero.”
“I agree with Branscomb to the extent that for anything to move, anything to flow, it must be driven. This is the reason why in my statement of the constructal law I used the word “imposed.” That word imposed means driven, dictated, pushed, pulled.”
“Everywhere I look, I see phenomena that confirm the constructal law, phenomena that tell me and my students that life is physics. That evolution is also a physics phenomenon. Evolution has direction, therefore it is not random. Again, as an educator, I can also tell people what knowledge is and what information is not.”
Source: Adrian Bejan: “Growth Is Not Evolution” | Suzan Mazur
“In this vision of a kind of hidden essence of nature, we can find the true nexus of Leonardo’s ‘art’ and ‘science’. We tend to think of his art as ‘lifelike’, and Vasari made the same mistake. He praises the vase of flowers that appears in one of Leonardo’s Madonnas for its ‘wonderful realism’, but …
“The self, such as it is, arises solely because of a special type of swirly tangled pattern among the meaningless symbols.” “meaning comes in despite one’s best efforts to keep symbols meaningless!” “When a system of “meaningless” symbols has patterns in it that accurately track, or mirror, various phenomena in the world, then that tracking …