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Previous "On Being" guest, Adele Diamond, tells a story about meeting the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India at a Mind and Life Institute dialogue. We highlight some of the passages Adele Diamond presented to the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala — including texts from Rabbi Heschel, Bashevis Singer, Rachel Naomi Remen, and Henri Nouwen.
The XIV Dalai Lama seems to many to embody happiness — happiness against the odds, a virtue that is acquired and practiced. Before a live audience in Atlanta, Georgia, Krista had a rare opportunity to mull over the meaning of happiness in contemporary life with him and three global spiritual leaders: a Muslim scholar, a chief rabbi, and a presiding bishop. An invigorating and unpredictable discussion exploring the themes of suffering, beauty, and the nature of the body.
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is the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet. He is the author of many books, including Ethics for a New Millennium.
is the former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth. He is the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University and the Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University. He has also been appointed as Professor of Law, Ethics and the Bible at King's College London. He is the author of several books, including The Dignity of Difference.
is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. He's a prominent philosopher and scholar of Islam who has written many books, including The Heart of Islam and Man and Nature.
is the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. She holds a doctorate in oceanography.
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I would like to know how his holiness the Dalai Lama felt sharing the platform with a man whose ideology demanded the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas and the despoilation of the Indian subcontinent, where Buddha was born and where Buddhism flourished before the Muslim conquest arrived, a conquest estimated to have taken 80 million human lives.
A responsible host would never have allowed Seyyed Hossain Nasr his taqiyya definition of jihad. Jihad is, and has always been, primarily the demand that Muslim males must make war for Islam till everyone on the planet submits.
But then a responsible host, on NPR, would go the way of Juan Williams.
He is a Sufi. Not exactly the
He is a Sufi. Not exactly the Taliban.
Dear sue brown,
Dear sue brown,
as i was exploring some websites i got by keen eyes on it. I felt sorry to myself when you mentioned that lord buddha was born in india. Sigh !! Pleas be informed lord buddha was born in Nepal, lumbini and we Nepalese are still running a campaign all over the world to let them know - Lord buddha was born in Nepal not in india.
Thank you
Sue I think you totally
Sue I think you totally missed the point of the panel and what was being shared.
And for the sake of argument we could talk about the bloody crusades and inquisition. But that would be against the message of the panel.
You also need to study more by yourself on Islam and its essence. Not to go by certain facts that are highlighted in history.
There is a lot more to Islam, than what we are shown on state controlled media.
If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on. - Terence McKenna
Did anyone ackowledge that the phrase "pursuit of happiness" as it appears in the Declaration of Independence had quite another meaning at the time of its writing than is generally supposed today. While your inquiry with religious leaders would have its greater interest, no doubt, in the modern notion of an emotionally joyful or contented state, its meaning 235 years ago and now obsolete is not "joyful heart" at all but its precursor perhaps, "good circumstances." It is good fortune that we have the inalienable right to pursue, not any particular feelings. Fortunate circumstances. "Happiness" shares the root of "happen" and "perhaps." Happiness is when things go well. How you feel about it is a whole other issue. Happy is lucky. A person suffering misery, pain, and depression might be very happy. The avenue to happy feelings is appreciation. Which is why the old advice to overcome the blues is to "count your blessings."
I'm replying to your comment,
I'm replying to your comment, Loren, because I was thinking about that phrase "pursuit of happiness", too, and thinking that what it meant in our Declaration of Independence is different from what happiness tends to mean to most people now. That idea of happiness 235 years ago was related to an ancient Greek idea, eudaimonia, that has more to do with living a good life and conducting yourself in such a way that you are responsible for good actions in the world. It had a lot to do with flourishing as a result of ethical/practical wisdom and that means a high level of responsibility to self and to others.
I think that there is a difference between JOY and HAPPINESS. I believe that joy can definitely be found in suffering by focusing on the beauty of life, which must include suffering. If it weren't for suffering, we would not appreciate the many delights of living. If I suffer, I know I am capable of feeling deeply, of living deeply. I know that after every period of suffering comes a period of relief; this knowing makes joy possible even during the suffering. My Christian faith reinforces my beliefs. Christ's suffering on the cross was necessary for the great joy and glory of the resurrection. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "After every Good Friday, there is an Easter Sunday." The Bible tells us that "At nightfall weeping enters in,/But with dawn comes rejoicing." I watched my mother and my father endure much suffering with great dignity and acceptance. When I am suffering, I find joy in their examples, in the beauty of nature and life, in my Christian faith, in my belief that God can turn all things--even our suffering--into something good and wonderful and joyous. I'm not seeking happiness because I don't think we CAN seek it, but I'm always open to the spirit of joy that is part of our essential make-up. Joy is within us all--in our hearts, in our souls, in the fabric of our being. Like grace we need only to be open to it and grateful for it. If we are, it is given to us freely--even when we are suffering.
That was beautiful,
That was beautiful, especially the last bit! How wonderful to have that understanding of life.
Your "Happiness" program was inspiring and wonderful. I would love to hear an extended interview with Dr. Nasr. Thank you for a beautiful show!!
I really enjoyed listening to your spiritual guests discuss HAPPINESS. It was interesting to enter their individual worlds of spirituality.
I'm a former catholic priest who left the ministry in 1970 and have studied world religions to see just how much they agree, as opposed to disagree, and found that the closer to the divinity they each become, the more similiarity exists among them. However, the closer you come to their religious practices, the more diverse (and even antagonistic) they are .
In the 70's I entered the church of Scientology
and came to yet another discovery, i.e. that we are all essentially, not just a brotherhood of humans, but each of us is a spiritual being, and in in a very real way we share the divinity, which becomes a further motive for all of us to love and respect one another.
WE are indeed all children of God, and our individual different paths to love Him should be respected and validated.
I was disappointed today as I listened to your interviews with the honorable religious leaders from your show recorded at Emory. When Ms. Tippett asked H.H. the Dalai Lama about hatred, she had a good question--except for her introductory remarks. She basically equated strong political feeling and disagreement with hatred. I don't see it that way, and I believe Ms. Tippett does us all a disfavor when she colors her comments in this way. I'm more than happy to discuss, since I'm a scholar of interreligious understanding myself.
John B. Switzer, PhD
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I've found happiness in preparing food. No other activity grounds me more fully and alights all my senses and keeps me in the "now". Mincing and dicing soothe me. Reading cookbooks excite me. Taste testing keeps me present. I love the colors and the aromas. I love supermarkets. I'm addicted to farmer's markets. In the past week I cooked chicken stir fry for 140 women at Rosie's Place in the South End of Boston, prepared farmer's market tamales for my wife on Halloween night, and prepared an autumnal salad with roasted delicata squash as part of a potluck dinner for my besties -- nothing brought me greater joy.
Your itemizing your joy,
Your itemizing your joy, brought me gulping in my joy.
Happiness is subjective and because of that, it depends a lot on your perspective.As the Dalai Lama explained, even the saddest circumstance will not seem so bad from afar. Sure, it may not bring happiness, but suffering can be reduced. If we bring that to the everyday, a change in perspective can help us to become happy. Find the beauty, the humor, and the calm in the present and then appreciate it. Often discovering just one of these qualities is happiness itself.
I listened to the interview with Rabbi Jonathon Sacks & watched the Video of the 'Spiritual Leaders' at Emory & am inspired to comment. I come from a lineage which investigates all spiritual traditions. By this I mean, my mother, raised Catholic, & I as a child, visited many different kinds of Christian churches; especially those that were more progressive such as Unitarian back then; as well as entertaining an openness to Judaism, Greek Orthodox, and all spiritual persuasion; which set me on a path of spiritual curiosity; the practice continuing through early adulthood in the teachings of Western Hinduism with Ram Dass; finding 'Unity Churches' particularly open to expansive, inclusive idealism; a study of the comparison of the three major religions of Christian, Judaism, & Islam; going deeper into philosophy of each through Sufi teachings, Kabbalah teachings, & St John of the Cross; feeling deeply the American Indian, Ancient Mother, & Chinese tradition of finding the sacred in the energies represented by each directions & elements of the natural world; and through all this used my knowledge of Buddhism, gained through martial arts and wonderful associations with monks from Thailand, & Vietnam, to create a mindfulness with-in my actions and a lovingness through my actions to find happiness. I was not always successful and therein lies the truth. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on one's point of view, we all have to reckon with the flaws of being human; having human parents; caregivers; teachers; circumstances; & ideas; all presented to us, caring for us, & expressed within us of often less than loving 'language'...used in the broadest terms, (the language of life). I say not to worry about all the setbacks and circumstances, good or bad, that made us who we are, 'only human', because after all, what is life if not the struggle to find out what being human really means? If we have reached a point in our life where we can say I have learned much on this journey in humanity, so far; how not to act inhumane most of the time; have at my fingertips a good instruction book, (some tradition), on what being human really gets at; what it means to the rest of humanity if I am able to touch that place in me where happiness resides; and by so doing share my love and joy & resources, with those I come in contact with, in person, on the phone, in a text, email or in service here or across a continent; then I know I have a "yes" in me, to dry the sad tears and turn them into tears of laughter at the otter inexplicable, mysterious, miraculous, and often magical experience that is this life. Happiness? What provokes it: The beauty in nature does, being mindful helps enormously, practicing loving kindness brings an unmatchable kind of inner happiness to one's whole being, family members & friends which support us in our uniqueness give us courage to be the best we can be, pets with their unconditional love help us forgive ourselves, but I think Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is right too, that we must heal through conversation, leave the past behind, and do good for others. Happiness is a result but remember, if and when 'the blues' come to call, to tip one's cup, one more time and say, "oh gosh, all right, yes, OK life, Yes!.. and I await the blessing, as Rabbi Sacks so profoundly instructed us."
Your interview with Rabbi Sacks was beautifully meaningful. Another favorite was Joanna Macy and ;A Wild Love For The World'. I've listened over & over during the weeks since, and it always brings a big smile into my heart. Thank you for your service to 'Being'. Suzan Newman, R.N.-humanitarian-mother-environmentalist
I have not "found" happiness. When I have felt it, experienced it, it is because I have allowed it to surface; I have removed the barriers to its coming, namely, resentment, bitterness, and many other forms of fear. The method for removing the barriers is based on my ability to shift my perception at a given moment, becoming conscious of what I choose to focus on. When I choose love, forgiveness, happiness appears, where it has always been, waiting for me.
I found Happiness a personal
I found Happiness a personal experience, sometimes decision, this strange mix of sharing what you cherish and value with people and also in solitude and having some time alone, it's very important to look in yourself and be aware what's important and what's not, Happiness comes from gratitude and a noble degree of acceptance and it's also a bless from God. in Islamic tradition there is a teaching that says God will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves, this is the greater Jihad -for those who bring it up- and it's something that is a common ground between all religions..the other "well exposed" use of "lesser Jihad" has other aspects which includes warfare and needs lots of historical and sociological knowledge to get into discussing it..and of course some misuse it..you can think about it misusing it as someone trying to force karma -in their understanding- to occur.this is an act of Ego as well as generalizing.
To suffer is an obvious truth that you have to accept you'll experience it in some way, but there is also compassion and beautiful patience to try your best to yield and let it happen and you could grief it in a prayer for example and keep your trust to God. if sometime Islam translates into "submission" it's true, but if it works for you you could call it "peaceful acceptance"..here we have to mention Beauty, there is another dimension or Islam that's called Ihsan which does mean goodness, virtue and beauty a the same time, you could call it "beautification" :), being mindful and understanding enough to have this enthusiasm after acceptance to make things the best way they could to reach happiness and God. Charity even with a smile is an act of Ihsan.
This applies for a lot of traditions so I just wanted to express the Islamic point of view, so thanks for the opportunity.
Salam all (peace:))
On a recent interview you were talking about how we find happiness in a world full of violence and staggering losses, random and intended harm. A few years back I was at an awards ceremony at the Los Angeles Book Fair. The poet who was chosen to receive an award was someone whose work I didn't know; Jack Gilbert. He was unable to attend and so they had pre-recorded him reading one of his pieces.
The question of how can we remain hopeful and aware in the face of sorrow, whether political or personal, is one that I have wrestled with, but not gone far enough it turns out. This poem answered that question so powerfully that I found myself gasping for breath with understanding and well, weeping openly...something I'm skilled at!
I wanted to send it your way.
Your program rounds out my week and my thinking.
Thanks,Claudette Sutherland
from Refusing Heaven---Jack Gilbert
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
are not starving someplace, they are starving
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.
But we enjoy our lives because that's what God wants.
Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would not
be made so fine. The Bengal tiger would not
be fashioned so miraculously well. The poor women
at the fountain are laughing together between
the suffering they have known and the awfulness
in their future, smiling and laughing while somebody
in the village is very sick. There is laughter
every day in the terrible streets of Calcutta,
and the women laugh in the cages of Bombay.
If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction
we lessen the importance of their deprivation.
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,
we should give thanks that the end had magnitude.
We must admit there will be music despite everything.
We stand at the prow again of a small ship
anchored late at night in the tiny port
looking over to the sleeping island: the waterfront
is three shuttered cafes and one naked light burning.
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat
comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth
all the years of sorrow that are to come.
(apologies to Mr.Gilbert. I couldn't get my formatting to work right!)
I'm sure this will be a very good program to listen to. But I do notice that there is no Catholic on the panel. Hmm. Anyway, theh Catholic belief is that we are made for happiness, happiness beyond what we can imagine, because God is so good. Happiness and eternal life is to know the Son whom the Father sent into the world, Jesus Christ. We are made to love and serve him, in freedom, in this world and the next.
The Catholic belief is also that the Catholic faith is the fullness of the truth: not a point of bragging, but one of responsibility, and it has the fullness because it is the Church established by God: 'On this rock I shall build My Church', not our church, His Church.
But, other religions have pieces of the truth. Some are pre-Christian, the Jewish faith being the pre-eminent and unique in relation to Catholicism, and others are post-Christian developments. But God is so humble that he guides people to Himself through religions that are not even his own, leading them to a moral life and communion to some extent with God.
But happiness in this world is no doubt to have God live in our hearts, and as Archbishop Dolan said recently, 'Having the life of God in our hearts is ours for the asking'.
Hello Ed, I am sure you are a
Hello Ed, I am sure you are a very good man but the program was a conversation with 4 individuals from different backgrounds. Christians were represented. I suggest you listen to the conversation again and seek a deeper truth. I was moved by the Islamic concept that was discussed very early in the program- they have only one word for virtue, goodness, and beauty. The Dali Lama sought to teach us our minds reflect our inner beauty/truth/soul. I am not Catholic so I don't know how you feel. I am from a small town in NH and belong to a congregational church. The woman on the panel was an Episcopal which I always thought was pretty much like Catholic. I am sorry I really don't know. But we Christians all have the Bible. Jesus asked us to love one another so embrace the discussion and find the beauty, truth, and goodness in it. Smile. Be happy. Free yourself from the walls in your mind. The WORLD is God's creation in all it's forms. Look for it in others who are different from yourself and you will find it. Good Luck and God Bless.
Proof that we can sit and talk about great topics and not all be from identical backgrounds. I shed tears of joy into cookie dough I was making while listening. The way to get along is mutual respect. The panel made it sound so easy.
A favorite moment was when we were given the idea to slow down and let happiness overtake us. Wonderful.
I will listen to this program again. Thank you to the producers and Ms. Tippett for bringing hope to our old world. I still imagine a world where we can live and let live.
Thank you for your show and this program. I always enjoy programs when you have a round table on faith issues.
The thing for me to find happyness is not and goal, it a balance between the the mind, body and spiritual of the person. Sadly to say this is a life long process and I must work on this every day. From my studies of faith i have found that all have expressed this by differnt means according to it faith system. The problem is that I forget that this a daily problem that I must work towards every day.
All faith express a personal relationship with God, our selfs and to others. So being a inperfect human i must adress everyday( some times many times a day). This requires work and too often people dont want to adress because it means looking at yourself in totaly honest way( scary ).
I work a second job every Sunday, and I begin my morning by tuning into your program. Philosophy was one of my majors, so I am always interested in the expressions of ideas by those better schooled than myself in the esoterica of humans questioning their surroundings. Likewise, I am attentive to those who best express ways to trickle the enlightment of the educated upper echelon down to the average individual. My own belief is that through enlightened teaching a great deal of the cutural strife that plagues our planet can be minimized, if not eliminated.
I had my own crisis of faith decades ago, in my mid-teens. It left me feeling more lethargy than antipathy toward concepts like soul salvation and a life hereafter. I found my solace in the discourses of the great philosophical minds, primarily of the Western world.
Your New Year's Day program was entertaining, at the very least, and it was really quite comforting to listen to your guests expound. I look forward to many more hours of listening to your interviews and discussions.
i just want to express my deep gratitude for the many resources you provide with each episode. The transcript of this conversation, available free of charge, is a wonderful addition. The Dali Lama's accent is difficult for me to understand; transcripts make your program accessible to all.
In response to the right of happiness, the Dalai Lama said that happiness is indeed a right, and is the very purpose of existence. He believes that happiness doesn't "come from the sky", but that we must make and choose happiness in this life. I can identify very strongly with this. Happiness comes from your attitude and your choices to accept happiness, even through the struggles of life. You cannot just seek happiness, you much choose to be happy with your life, even though it may not be perfect.
Before I even listen, it's
Before I even listen, it's hard not to notice that all those being interviewed are male. Even with Krista as the interviewer, it is simply wrong to convene a panel on human experience and ignorance the wisdom and experiences of one half of the human family!
Hi Siddika. Thanks for
Hi Siddika. Thanks for voicing your concern. Besides Krista, Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori is also on the panel. I'd like to note that we attended the event at the invitation of Emory University, who carefully considered the panel on stage within the larger context of a multi-day conference that included an incredible diversity of men and women from many religious and spiritual backgrounds.
My mistake! There was one
My mistake! There was one woman hidden in there!
Religion has evolved because
Religion has evolved because of the nature of our needs. There is no "
god" , but only an understanding that we are all in this together.
I pray for Ms Brown and hope
I pray for Ms Brown and hope she comes to understand that letting go of hate is a good and necessary thing.
Having heard the broadcast on
Having heard the broadcast on NPR thru Boston's WBUR this morning, I am so deeply convinced that the current state of religious fanaticism could be reduced to peaceful co-existence, if only the leaders and guardians speak out with one voice, After all, being HAPPY is not only the birthright of we humans, but the most desirable dream horizons, that travel through time and ages
This is a wonderful
This is a wonderful discussion that demonstrates the transcendent good that religion in its true sense aspires to and carries the human yearning for the true, the good, and the beautiful along a worthy path. So important when so much that calls itself religion in today's world is divisive and certainly not aimed at the transcendent good we so mistakenly anthropomorphize and in our limited ego frames try to own exclusively. Thank you to all the speakers. You show that diversity can be harmony and the conversation can be the music of the spheres.
A wonderful panel, but where
A wonderful panel, but where is the Catholic? I'll have to supply a Catholic view. Pope Benedict stressed beauty very much during his papacy: beauty is one of the transcendentals, one of the attributes of God: infinite justice, infinite goodness, infinite truth, infinite beauty. Also beauty is an important element, Pope Benedict told us, in the task of evangelization: people are drawn to beauty
In the Catholic view we can
In the Catholic view we can enter into happiness even here, begin to live in heaven even here. That is done by God living within us, the indwelling of the Trinity.
Do we have a right to happiness? Even Aristotle told us that the purpose of life is happiness. Happiness can only be found in God, who is searching for us.
ISIS might be driving the
ISIS might be driving the different traditions, all of good will, even closer together.
Mary appeared in Rwanda about
Mary appeared in Rwanda about 10 years before the Rwandan Genocide, appearing several times, and her main theme was 'you must stop hating your neighbor'. People didn't really know what she was talking about, but now Immaculee has writtten a book about Our Lady of Kibeho which is called 'If only we had listened'. Beautiful verse from Moses.
Nothing can ever be
Nothing can ever be exhaustive, but I felt the voice of the Native Americans (from the Americas, not only the USA) was missing in this conversation.
"If the Israelites had
"If the Israelites had continued to hate their enemies, Moses would have taken the Israelites out of Egypt, but he would not have taken Egypt out of the Israelites. They would be slaves to their past, slaves to their feeling of pain and injustice and grievance."
Rabbi Sacks received hearty applause for these words. But, unfortunately, he and his fellow Jews in Israel fail to take these words to heart in regard to the Palestinian people. Israel remains a slave to its past in its relentless oppression of Palestinians -- people who bear no responsibility for the centuries of oppression endured by the Jews.
Why isn't Jesus mentioned?
Why isn't Jesus mentioned?
Thank you for a rich and
Thank you for a rich and inspiring program! As I listen again, I am struck by what the Dalai Lama said about how physical pain can be lessened by the mind but how mental suffering cannot be subdued by comforts of the body,a powerful insight for a culture where substance abuse and over consumption of natural resources have reached a crisis state. Second,it was good to hear Bishop Jefferts Schori refer to the brilliant work of Walter Wink on "turn the other cheek," but what she said left out key information. Here is what Walter Wink actually says (especially top of p. 2): .
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Chemistry, a branch of physical science, is the study of the composition, properties and behavior of matter. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds. Chemistry is also concerned with the interactions between atoms (or groups of atoms) and various forms of energy (e.g. photochemical reactions, changes in phases of matter, separation of mixtures, properties of polymers, etc.).
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- It is the study of the Chemists to liberate that unsensual truth from its fetters in things of sense, for through it the heavenly powers are persued with subtle understanding....Knowledge is the sure and undoubted resolution by experiment of all opinions concerning the truth....Experiment is manifest demonstration of the truth, and resolution the putting away of doubt. We cannot be resolved of any doubt save by experiment, and therefore is no better way to make it than on ourselves. Let us therefore verify what we have said above concerning the truth, beginning with ourselves. We have said that piety consists in knowledge of ourselves, and hence it is said that we make philosophical knowledge begin from this also. But no man can know himself unless he know what and not who he is, on whom he depends and whose he is (for by the law of truth no one belongs to himself, and to what end he was made. With this knowledge piety begins, which is concerned with two things, namely, with the Creator and the creature that is made like unto him. For it is impossible for the creature to know himself of himself, unless he first know his Creator....No one can better know the Creator, than the workman is known by his work.
- Gerhard Dorn 1659 c. Theatrum Chemicum Volume 1 phil. med.
- Chymistry is all New; there was no such thing known to the Generations of Old. This Spagyrick Art, which was set on foot by Paracelsus and Helmont, and by some other searching Heads, hath had Prodigious Additions made to it lately. The Alchymists Retort and Alembick never were furnish'd with such rare and excellent Secrets as they are now; the Laboratories and Furnaces never afforded the like Inventions. It is indeed a rough and violent way of Philosophizing, it is an hectoring as it were of Nature, it is puting her upon the Rack, and on the Fiery Trial, to make her confess what she never did before. And truly she hath made a very ample Confession and Discovery, whereby the knowledge of Natural Philosophy is much increas'd and imbellish'd, very Noble and Precious Medicaments (consisting of Oyls, Spirits, Tinctures, Salts, &c.) are produced, and the Healthfulness of Men's Bodies, and their Longævity are procured, and the Almighty Creator thereby Exalted and Honoured.
- John Edwards, A Compleat History of All Dispensations and Methods of Religion (1699), p. 631
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- We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
- Antoine Lavoisier (1790) Elements of Chemistry, pp. xiii-xxxvii
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- God does not justify man on the ground of human learning; attainments in chemistry, anatomy, geology, botany, astronomy, or skill in sculpture and painting, — these do not prepare a man to die.
- Albert Barnes (1895) Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers. p. 114.
- Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
- Auguste Comte (1798 – 1857) as quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan Lindsay Mackay
- One of the most striking characteristics of this new modification of oxygen is its peculiar odor, and hence Schönbein calls it ozone, from a Greek verb signifying to smell. It frequently happens that a great discovery supplies the wanting links between a number of obscure facts, and thus adds quite as much to our knowledge by its indirect bearings as by the positive additions it makes to the general stock. So it has been with the discovery of ozone. Every one who has used an electrical machine must have noticed the peculiar smell which follows the electrical discharge. This was formerly supposed to be the odor of the electrical fluid itself; but as soon as ozone was discovered, the odor was recognized at once as belonging to this new agent, and it was soon ascertained that electricity is one of the most efficient means of modifying the oxygen of the air.
- Josiah Parsons Cooke (1880). Religion and Chemistry. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. p. 116.
- If a possible — nay, reasonable — variation in only one of the forces conditioning the human race, that of gravitation, could so modify our outward form, appearance, and proportions as to make us to all intents and purposes a different race of beings; if mere differences of size can cause some of the most simple facts in chemistry and physics to take so widely different a guise; if beings microscopically small and prodigiously large would simply as such be subject to the hallucinations I have pointed out, and to others I might enlarge upon, is it not possible that we, in turn, though occupying, as it seems to us, the golden mean, may also by the mere virtue of our size and weight fall into misinterpretations of phenomena from which we should escape were we or the globe we inhabit either larger or smaller, heavier or lighter? May not our boasted knowledge be simply conditioned by accidental environments, and thus be liable to a large element of subjectivity hitherto unsuspected and scarcely possible to eliminate?
- William Crookes (1897) Address to the Society for Psychical Research
- Reader! Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of its inclosure. Imagine the additions made where the projecting limbs had fairly and far emerged beyond the confines of the garment. Imagine the boy still growing, and the clothes, mended all over, now more than ever in want of mending — such is chemistry, and such its nomenclature.
- John Joseph Griffin (1834) Chemical Recreations (7th Edition, 1834) "The Romance of Chemistry" p. 189
- We can no more have exact religious thinking without theology, than exact mensuration and astronomy without mathematics, or exact iron-making without chemistry,
- John Hall (Presbyterian pastor) (1895) Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers p. 580.
- It is a mistake to confound Alchemy with Chemistry. Modern Chemistry is a science which deals merely with the external forms in which the element of matter is manifesting itself. It never produces anything new. We may mix and compound and decompose two or more chemical bodies an unlimited number of times, and cause them to appear under various different forms, but at the end we will have no augmentation of substance, nor anything more than the combinations of the substances that have been employed at the beginning. Alchemy does not mix or compound anything, it causes that which already exists in a latent state to become active and grow. Alchemy is, therefore, more comparable to botany or agriculture than to Chemistry; and, in fact, the growth of a plant, a tree, or an animal is an alchemical process going on in the alchemical laboratory of nature, and performed by the great Alchemist, the power of God acting in nature.
- Franz Hartmann. (1890) In the Pronaos of the Temple of Wisdom, containing the History of the True and the False Rosicrucians. p. 129
- The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.
- Alexander von Humboldt, Cosmos, H.G. Bohn, 1860, v2, p. 589,595
- Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.
- Justus von Liebig (1854) Familiar Letters on Chemistry (London, 1854)
- I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle.
- Dmitri Mendeleev Declared in his treatise "An Outline of the System of the Elements" it was read to the Russian Chemical Society.
- In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? Or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? Or what old ones have they advanced? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? Who drinks out of American glasses? Or eats from American plates? Or wears American coats or gowns? or sleeps in American blankets? Finally, under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his fellow-creatures may buy and sell and torture?
- Sydney Smith (1820) Referring to the lack of established culture and the established institution of slavery in the United States, in "Review of Seybert's Annals of the United States", published in The Edinburgh Review (1820).
- "Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one."
- Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) cited in: Coper, H., Herken, H., 1963. Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. 88,2025– 2036.
20th century[edit]
- The nature of the chemical bond is the problem at the heart of all chemistry.
- Bryce Crawford in New Chemistry (1957) by the editors of Scientific American, p. 65
- We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.
- Marie Curie (1921) Lecture at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (14 May 1921)
- Within a certain kind of environment, an activity may be checked so that the only meaning which accrues is of its direct and tangible isolated outcome. One may cook, or hammer, or walk, and the resulting consequences may not take the mind any farther than the consequences of cooking, hammering, and walking in the literal — or physical — sense. But nevertheless the consequences of the act remain far-reaching. To walk involves a displacement and reaction of the resisting earth, whose thrill is felt wherever there is matter. It involves the structure of the limbs and the nervous system; the principles of mechanics. To cook is to utilize heat and moisture to change the chemical relations of food materials; it has a bearing upon the assimilation of food and the growth of the body. The utmost that the most learned men of science know in physics, chemistry, physiology is not enough to make all these consequences and connections perceptible. The task of education, once more, is to see to it that such activities are performed in such ways and under such conditions as render these conditions as perceptible as possible.
- John Dewey (1916) Democracy and Education, section about the Extension of Meaning of Primary Activities
- The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of the main features of complex atomic systems without too much computation.
- Modern warfare, we discovered, was to a far greater extent than ever before a conflict of chemists and manufacturers. Manpower, it is true, was indispensable, and generalship will always, whatever the conditions, have a vital part to play. But troops, however brave and well led, were powerless under modern conditions unless equipped with adequate and up-to-date artillery (with masses of explosive shell), machine-guns, aircraft and other supplies. Against enemy machine-gun posts and wire entanglements the most gallant and best-led men could only throw away their precious lives in successive waves of heroic martyrdom. Their costly sacrifice could avail nothing for the winning of victory.
- David Lloyd George (1938) War Memoirs
- The alchemical tradition assumes that every physical art or science is a body of knowledge which exists only because it is ensouled by invisible powers and processes. Physical chemistry, as it is practiced in the modern world, is concerned principally with pharmaceutical or industrial research projects. It is confined within the boundaries of an all-pervading materialism, which binds labor to the advancement of physical objectives.
- Manly Palmer Hall (1988) Meditation Symbols in Eastern & Western Mysticism
- The Joker: You IDIOT! You made me. Remember? You dropped me into that vat of chemicals. That wasn't easy to get over, and don't think that I didn't try.
- Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren Batman (1989 film)
- Somehow, the practice of astronomy, physics, chemistry or biology normally fails to evoke the controversies over fundamentals that today seem endemic among, say, psychologists or sociologists. Attempting to discover the source of that difference led me to recognize the role in scientific research of what I have since called "paradigms." These I take to be universally recognized scientific achievements that for a time provide model problems and solutions for a community of practitioners.
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. p. 48
- For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I was fed up with books, which I still continued to gulp down with indiscreet voracity, and searched for a key to the highest truths; there must be a key, and I was certain that, owing to some monstrous conspiracy to my detriment and the world's, I would not get in school. In school they loaded with me with tons of notions that I diligently digested, but which did not warm the blood in my veins. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: "I will understand this, too, I will understand everything, but not the way they want me to. I will find a shortcut, I will make a lock-pick, I will push open the doors."
It was enervating, nauseating, to listen to lectures on the problem of being and knowing, when everything around us was a mystery pressing to be revealed: the old wood of the benches, the sun's sphere beyond the windowpanes and the roofs, the vain flight of the pappus down in the June air. Would all the philosophers and all the armies of the world be able to construct this little fly? No, nor even understand it: this was a shame and an abomination, another road must be found.
- Primo Levi (1975) The Periodic Table "Hydrogen"
- There is a narrowness of action, though not of intent, which characterizes university departments, and scientific publications and scientists in general: if it is too popular, it is somehow vulgar and wrong. You can't really speak to those people across the street. I live next to the chemists at MIT, but I never see them. I hardly know who they are, yet between physics and chemistry it is hard to know who should study what molecule. I myself am guilty. We form communities not based on the problems of science, but on quite other things. This is part of the general split between the intelligent member of the public and the scientist who speaks in narrow focus. But the great theoretical problems which I believe the world expects will somehow be solved by science, problems close to deep philosophical issues are the very problems that find the least expertise, the least degree of organization, the least institutional support in the scientific institutions of America or indeed of the world.
- Philip Morrison on specialization in (1995) Nothing is Too Wonderful to be True
- We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry, involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine.
- Linus Pauling, Nobel Lecture (11 December 1954)
- Just think of the differences today. A young person gets interested in chemistry and is given a chemical set. But it doesn't contain potassium cyanide. It doesn't even contain copper sulfate or anything else interesting because all the interesting chemicals are considered dangerous substances. Therefore, these budding young chemists don't get a chance to do anything engrossing with their chemistry sets. As I look back, I think it is pretty remarkable that Mr. Ziegler, this friend of the family, would have so easily turned over one-third of an ounce of potassium cyanide to me, an eleven-year-old boy.
- Linus Pauling In His Own Words (1995) by Barbara Marinacci, p. 29
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that all energy systems run down like a clock and never rewind themselves. But life not only 'runs up,' converting low energy sea-water, sunlight and air into high-energy chemicals, it keeps multiplying itself into more and better clocks that keep 'running up' faster and faster. Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive? If we leave a chemistry professor out on a rock in the sun long enough the forces of nature will convert him into simple compounds of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, and small amounts of other minerals. It's a one-way reaction. No matter what kind of chemistry professor we use and no matter what process we use we can't turn these compounds back into a chemistry professor. Chemistry professors are unstable mixtures of predominantly unstable compounds which, in the exclusive presence of the sun's heat, decay irreversibly into simpler organic and inorganic compounds. That's a scientific fact. The question is: Then why does nature reverse this process? What on earth causes the inorganic compounds to go the other way? It isn't the sun's energy. We just saw what the sun's energy did. It has to be something else. What is it?
- Robert M. Pirsig (1991) Lila
- It has never been in my power to study anything, — mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic.
- Charles Sanders Peirce Letter to Victoria (23 December 1908)
- The recognition of certain basic impossibilities has laid the foundations of some major principles of physics and chemistry; similarly, recognition of the impossibility of understanding living things in terms of physics and chemistry, far from setting limits to our understanding of life, will guide it in the right direction. And even if the demonstration of this impossibility should prove of no great advantage in the pursuit of discovery, such a demonstration would help to draw a truer image of life and man than that given us by the present basic concepts of biology.
- Michael Polanyi (1968) Life's irreducible structure
- The ego becomes more like the inner ego and less like its old self, comparatively speaking. It accepts large portions of reality that it previously denied. Structurally, it remains intact, yet it has changed chemically and electromagnetically. Now it is far more open to inner data. Once this freedom is achieved, the ego can never return to its old state.
- Jane Roberts in Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, p. 310-311
- I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
- Ernest Rutherford On his 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry, as quoted in Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics (2004) by Mauro Dardo, p. 69
- Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
- Frederick Soddy as quoted in American journal of physics, Volume 14. American Association of Physics Teachers, American Institute of Physics. 1946. p. 248.
- Professor Meitner stated that nuclear fission could be attributed to chemistry. I have to make a slight correction. Chemistry merely isolated the individual substances, but did not precisely identify them. It took Professor Hahn's method to do this. This was his achievement.
- Fritz Strassmann in an interview with the German television, ARD, March 8, 1959.
- I have described at some length the application of Positive Rays to chemical analysis; one of the main reasons for writing this book was the hope that it might induce others, and especially chemists, to try this method of analysis. I feel sure that there are many problems in chemistry, which could be solved with far greater ease by this than any other method. The method is surprisingly sensitive — more so than even that of spectrum analysis, requires an infinitesimal amount of material, and does not require this to be specially purified; the technique is not difficult if appliances for producing high vacua are available.
- J. J. Thomson (1913) Rays of Positive Electricity
- I recognize nothing that is not material. In physics, chemistry and biology I see only mechanics. The Universe is nothing but an infinite and complex mechanism. Its complexity is so great that it borders on randomness, giving the illusion of free will.
- Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1931) Monism of the Universe
- The philosophy of Bergson, which is a spiritualist restoration, essentially mystical, medieval, Quixotesque, has been called a demi-mondaine philosophy. Leave out the demi; call it mondaine, mundane. Mundane — yes, a philosophy for the world and not for philosophers, just as chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone. The world desires illusion (mundus vult decipi) — either the illusion antecedent to reason, which is poetry, or the illusion subsequent to reason, which is religion. And Machiavelli has said that whosoever wishes to delude will always find someone willing to be deluded. Blessed are they who are easily befooled!
- Miguel de Unamuno (1913) The Tragic Sense of Life
- Like literature, philosophy is not distinguished from other subjects by a specific approach to a subject-matter independent of it. Chemistry deals with chemicals, biology with life and astronomy with very large, very distant objects. Philosophy can boast no such definite subject-matter.
- David Wood (philosopher) (1990) Philosophy At The Limit. p. 69
New millennium[edit]
- Chemistry is the science of matter and the changes it can undergo. The world of chemistry therefore embraces everything material around us—the stones we stand on, the food we eat, the flesh we are made of, and the silicon we build into computers. There is nothing material beyond the reach of chemistry, be it living or dead, vegetable or mineral, on Earth or in a distant star.
- Peter Atkins and Loretta Jones, Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight, 4th ed. (2008)
- I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at the bedsides of my patients. Challenged by one of those patients, who asked "What do you believe, doctor?", I began searching for answers.
- Francis Collins, a geneticist who led the U.S. government's effort to decipher the human genome (DNA). cnn.com
- "My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models. Of course, they say, I have no degree in meteorology and I am therefore not qualified to speak. But I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do. The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields and farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in. The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models."
- Freeman Dyson (2007) "Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society", Edge, August 8, 2007
- You don't need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means. Life can emerge from physics and chemistry plus a lot of accidents. The human mind can arise from neurobiology and a lot of accidents, the way the chemical bond arises from physics and certain accidents. Doesn't diminish the importance of these subjects to know they follow from more fundamental things plus accidents.
- "We are honored for research which is today referred to as the "Two Neutrino Experiment". How does one make this research comprehensible to ordinary people? In fact "The Two Neutrinos" sounds like an Italian dance team. How can we have our colleagues in chemistry, medicine, and especially in literature share with us, not the cleverness of our research, but the beauty of the intellectual edifice, of which our experiment is but one brick? This is a dilemma and an anguish for all scientists because the public understanding of science is no longer a luxury of cultural engagement, but it is an essential requirement for survival in our increasingly technological age: In this context, I believe this Nobel Ceremony with its awesome tradition and pomp has as one of its most important benefits; the public attention it draws to science and its practitioners."
- Leon M. Lederman Lederman's speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1988. (url accessed on October 20, 2008)
- This new quantum mechanics promised to explain all of chemistry. And though I felt an exuberance at this, I felt a certain threat, too. "Chemistry," wrote Crookes, "will be established upon an entirely new basis…. We shall be set free from the need for experiment, knowing a priori what the result of each and every experiment must be." I was not sure I liked the sound of this. Did this mean that chemists of the future (if they existed) would never actually need to handle a chemical; might never see the colors of vanadium salts, never smell a hydrogen selenide, never admire the form of a crystal; might live in a colorless, scentless, mathematical world? This, for me, seemed and awful prospect, for I, at least, needed to smell and touch and feel, to place myself, my senses, in the middle of the perceptual world.
- Oliver Sacks (2001) Uncle Tungsten pp. 312–313
- Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow answering question if the subject of spectroscopy was dead for the physicists, as quoted by Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes (2003). Biographical Memoirs V.83. National Academies Press. p. 202. ISBN 0-309-08699-X.
- ...when I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished – for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.
- K. Barry Sharpless, Nobel lecture, 2001
- Chemists usually write about their chemical careers in terms of the different areas and the discrete projects in those areas on which they have worked. Essentially all my chemical investigations, however, are in only one area, and I tend to view my research not with respect to projects, but with respect to where I've been driven by two passions which I acquired in graduate school: I am passionate about the Periodic Table (and selenium, titanium and osmium are absolutely thrilling), and I am passionate about catalysis. What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist; new catalytic reactivity is, of course, my personal coelacanth.
- K. Barry Sharpless, Nobel lecture, 2001
- The most essential example of the theory of self-organisation in chemistry is the theory of non-linear, non-equilibrium thermodynamics of chemical reactions presented by Prigogine and his co-workers.
- Rein Vihalemm (2001) "Chemistry as an Interesting Subject for the Philosophy of Science". p. 195
- Whether two molecules are (dis)similar is in the eye of the beholder. Scientists look to fool the receptor - but you really want to fool the patent office.
- S. Stanley Young (2008), assistant director of bioinformatics, National Institute of Statistical Sciences. Appearing in: Lipp, Elizabeth (2008-08-01). "Novel Approaches to Lead Optimization". Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (Mary Ann Liebert): pp. 20, 22. Retrieved on 2008-09-28.
- Chemists have been inspired by Nature for hundreds of years, not only trying to understand the chemistry that occurs in living systems, but also trying to extend Nature based on the learned facts.
- K. Zeitler, "N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Organocatalysts Displaying Diverse Modes of Action", in Organocatalysis (2008) edited by M.T. Reetz, B. List, S. Jaroch, H. Weinmann


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Sood, right, working with the HP team on the Misto touch interface
Six months after HP absorbed the boutique vendor Voodoo PC, the company sheds some light on its eventual plans
Late last week Hewlett-Packard showcased the fruits of its Voodoo PC acquisition and the HP Labs development team.
"It became clear that there has been work going on even prior to the Voodoo acquisition and now the wheels are spinning freely, and things are anything but status quo," said HP Global Gaming Chief Technology Officer and
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Much of HP's showcase included technology derived from
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. HP's Misto project, for example, integrates a 50" touch screen into a coffee table. The interface is designed as a proof-of-concept for gamers, but Sood isn't discounting its usefulness for other applications.
"Well, we have been exploring all types of technologies which pertain to gaming, including handheld, display, interface, and many others. We have enough intellectual property within HP to wallpaper the building," states Sood. "These research scientists within HP Labs are absolute geniuses, they have some interesting projects yet to be unveiled. The interesting thing is many of the projects they are working on are not specific to gaming - we have recognized these areas and the creative juices are flowing."
Voodoo PC built its niche on the no-expense-spared ultra enthusiasts. Although HP is a bit more grounded when it comes to catering to the masses, Voodoo's influence in HP Labs is more than apparent. In particular, HP demonstrated its nine-projector interface capable of displaying images bright enough to see outside in full daylight. HP's interlacing technology has shown up on other projector based projects; at the Consumer Electronics Show last January the company demonstrated its immersive driving simulator using multiple projectors interlaced together.
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"We recognized that there is a gap between HP and Voodoo – and we believe this gap is significant enough that we need to jump into the sandbox and draw the line. We never said anything about creating a fourth brand but there is indeed speculation."
Sood closes, "As I said at the event in San Francisco, our funnel is full of ideas; you'll see some new stuff as early as this year."
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Mmm. Technically I should close this thread as it's been more than a month since the last post, but it's gotten away with it so many times before... meh, I'll let it slide. For the last time.
Nynaeveshipping is still the most flawless, BTW. 8)
Thanks for not closing it!
My sad, sad OTP (not just in Pokémon, overall OTP) is Kellyn x Darkrai (ShadowCrystalShipping), but I also like Ash x Latias and Ash x Meloetta, and Bayleef -> Ash.
I think Grovyle x PMD2 Hero also counts, even though I ship them in their Pokémon form. P:
Oh my God, Ash x Meloetta is so adorable and sad and sweet...! ;^;
I found her fondness for him very touching and her song so beautiful... but, I found it sad how the Rockets took advantage of her love for him and the peace it brought her to get that song.
I hope she could show up again sometime. I really liked her storyline.
Bayleef's crush on Ash is very funny and also cute ( when she evolved because she wanted to save him! ;^; ). Oh, here's something related to both pairings that's kind of funny:
A jealous, yandere Bayleef~ xD
I've gotten very fond of Flickershipping (Nobori/Ingo x Chandela/Chandelure) lately! I want to write a fanfic about it, even though I rarely ever write fics~ I hope I can finish it and post it soon. ;3;
I'm happy this topic didn't get closed, because I really like the idea of Pokemon x human pairings and even wrote a little about them in my tumblr. I wish more people acknowledge them as having great potential to be very sweet and cute, like in the anime and as hinted in the games, rather than immediately thinking it's got to be something perverted. ;3;
Ummm...does OC/in-game shipping count? Because I've had my fair share of pokemon that got rather close with my in-game characters (No, I'm not just talking about starters, shut up!). I'll list a few examples:
Feralshipping: Jimmy (My character's name in HeartGold) x Zangoose (Male, lvl 100, transfered from Emerald). Got a Leaf Crown with him in a little under an hour, and he gets the most "happy reactions" when I talk to him (as party leader, of course), especially the hug and cuddle reactions.
Chompshipping: Jimmy x Gaburaisu (Garchomp, male, lvl 78, transfered from Platinum when I couldn't beat Clair -shut up-). He always bumps into me or hugs me. Which is hilarious, since the little bugger wouldn't listen to me when I first transfered him. Guess being lovey-dovey with me is his attempt at an act of penance?
Playboyshipping: Blake (My character's name in Platinum) x Kirisa (Lopunny, lvl 100, raised her from lvl 11 Buneary). She's the only one who told Dr. Footstep that they (my character and her) were "Friends". All other pokemon just go on about respect or how wild pokemon envy them. Pretty sketchy, if you ask me :P
Distortionshipping: Blake x Giratina. No, seriously. I didn't even get it to lvl 100 and it still reached max happiness. In Origin Forme, it gives the lvl 5 Scary No Footprints remark, but oddly enough, in Altered Forme, it gives the lvl 4 Scary Footprints remark. I guess it likes me because I let it remain in its true form? *Shrugs*
I recall a while ago we talked about me RPing Jirarudan/Mew
There's another Jirarudan RPer who has him in a similar relationship with Meloetta. Or did, since she quit her game, but it was still super cute and pretty sad since they played it as that he still saw adding her to his collection as a show of adoration.
The world's greatest collector as drawn by Yoru Ryu
Fancy Jirarudan too? Then you'll enjoy my fic Obsession! (updated May 30th, 2016)
It's got its own TV Tropes page!
Check out some of my other fics!
Answering Machine, winner of Most Heartbreaking Scene 2013!
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Bianca and her Emboar are a nice pair.
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Why is this thread so Anime/Game oriented?
Here's some Adventures ones.
Platinum/Rapidash: No bad riding jokes.
White/Amanda: Yes, I realize it's a human name; it's also what she nicknamed her Serperior.
My favorite ship of all is Iris x Excadrill. I love their interaction
^ Which has reminded me of why I kinda like May26shipping. Not as... tempermental, but interesting enough to make you wonder a bit.
Wally x Gardevior. I forgot the name. But the two are beautiful.
Credit to ~BrightStarVictory~ for the greatest banner EVAR!
Anyone x Gardevoir, sorry I just can't help myself
Be polite, Be efficient, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
I recently began liking the idea of Irisxaxew and DawnxPiplup I was going to write a fanfic involving them, no idea why lol. Does IrisxAxew actually have a name lol?.
Light come forth!
My name is a reference to the slayers anime.
Roxie /Scolipede, Hugh/Lieperd, Cynthia/Garchomp, Ghetsis/Cofagrigus for lulz...and I guess Iris/haxorus.
Oh yea, and ash/meloetta for the anime.
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I've always been a fan of Altoshipping. Ash is clueless about human girls, and Latias seems a perfect partner for him. She's been quite affectionate towards him and not in an overbearing way like Chikorita/Bayleaf was.
Also, Max & Ralts/Kirlia/Gardevoir. Max saved her life after all, and he promised to go back for her when he was old enough to be a trainer.
My favorite one is Max x Jirachi WishShipping. I just love the way they interact in the sixth movie. Also kinda like AshxPikachu.
I really need something to put here.
Reshiram is my bicycle with this. I have no shame either. *stares at four empty Sprite cans from finals week*
Ghetsis x Reshiram: FFFFF--- IT'S A LONG STORY, K?
Damon (Victini movies) x Reshiram: This came out of nowhere. The movies scream shipping opportunities.
Hero of Truth x Reshiram: Yes, the original feuding twin Reshiram sided with. I ship this. No shame.
Black/Touya/Hilbert x Reshiram: This one's more sane in this case. When I get Pokémon Black, I'm going out of my norm and picking Black/Hilbert/Touya simply for this ship. The things I do for shipping....
Muk x Claucher x Oak
How does that sound?


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Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
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J. S. Afr. Inst. Min. Metall. vol.114 no.3 Johannesburg Mar. 2014
The initiative for this volume came from the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy with the aim of commemorating Professor Danie Krige's work, his contribution to geostatistics, and the creation of new knowledge that he has stimulated. At the outset I would like to sincerely thank the authors for their contributions and for the swift and diligent responses to the call for papers. Since most of the work fell to the authors of the papers, compiling this volume has been a pleasure. The first invitation to contribute to the volume went out on 10 May 2013 and as the volume stands, it will contain 37 papers from 67 authors from around the globe, all completed in a period of nine months. The readiness and willingness of geostatisticians to contribute their research to this volume signals their appreciation for the work and person of Danie Krige. Something worth noting is that most authors found the writing of articles in this volume an enjoyable experience. In fact one author commented that he hoped I would enjoy reading the paper as much as he enjoyed writing it.
I thought that a summary of the early development of geostatistics might be in order. Early publications by Danie Krige were translated into French and Russian and the effects of his new insights into mineral resource evaluation spread to mining centres around the world. From this interest the APCOM meetings arose, and as the need for a forum to discuss such issues in the South African and Australian mining industries became evident, the Geostatistical Association of South Africa and the Geostatistical Association of Australia were formed. Early development of the subject material (before the term geostatistics was coined) in the literature of the 1945 to 1965 period was couched in phrases such as 'statistical approach' or 'statistical analysis' and 'mine valuation'. At that stage geostatistics was unknown as a subject, but terms such as lognormal, correlation, regression, trend surface, moving average, and interpolation procedures began to appear in this literature.
It is interesting to use the number of publications in the field of geostatistics as a proxy for the way the discipline of geostatistics has evolved over the years since its first developments in the early 1950s. In 1988 Patricia Sheahan produced a bibliography of geostatistics for the Economic Geology Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand, in which she lists 315 publications on geostatistics in the period 1951 to 1988. Her definition for geostatistics from the Glossary of Geology, published in 1987 by the American Geological Institute: '(a) statistics as applied to geology; the application of statistical methods or the application of statistical data for use in geology; (b) statistical techniques developed for mine valuation by the French school of Matheron', guided her choice of what to include, noting that her bibliography refers to practical aspects of geostatistics with an emphasis on literature since the mid-1970s, and that it is by no means comprehensive. However it is the best record that we have for that period of geostatistical development, so the data for the number of publications related to the subject for each year between 1951 and 1988 (Figure 1) is source from Sheahan (1988).
The period between 1950 and 1987, when the number of publications on geostatistics reached 133, is of particular interest. Figure 1 shows a moderate growth in the number of publications after 1964, but an exponential rise in 1976. Publications output in the 1978 to 1981 period was relatively subdued, but from 1982 growth in interest and output was rapid. I have found no bibliography of works relating to geostatistics after 1988 that meaningfully captures publications output. Webster's Timeline History 1962-2007 of Geostatistics (Parker, 2009) fails to capture many publications that were produced after 1987, and probably before that time as well. For interest, the numbers of publications by Danie Krige and Georges Matheron are also shown on the diagram.
It is probably dangerous to go down this road for risk of offending people by either getting the numbers wrong or by missing someone, but anyone with more than five publications in Sheahan's bibliography for this period is listed below. Some who have made huge contributions to the advancement of geostatistics, for example Ed Isaacs and Mohan Srivastava, besides many others (M. David, Ch. J. Huijbregts, P. Delfiner, and J.P. Chiles), do not feature in the list. So it should be said that the number of publications does not necessarily reflect the importance of the contributions to the development of geostatistics. Number of publications is not the only metric by which we should measure the development of a scientific discipline, but it really is interesting to see who was publishing geostatistical papers during the period (listed in the Table below).
The number and timeline of publications indicate two important features of Danie Krige as an outstanding researcher and academic - firstly the consistency, and secondly the number of publications produced during his lifetime.
Matheron and Kleingeld (1987), in their consideration of the evolution of geostatistics (APCOM 87, Geostatistics, vol. 3, pp. 9-12), note that the term 'random function' was not in use when Danie Krige and Herbert Sichel introduced statistics into ore evaluation. The term 'random variable' has been used fairly extensively in the past. For example, Paul Lévy (Ecole Polytechnique) wrote an article entitled 'Wiener's randomjunction, and otherLaplacian random Junctions' (pp. 171-187 in Proceedings, Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, University of California Press, 1951), and in 1962 A.M. Yaglom wrote the book 'An Introduction to the Theory of Stationary Random Functions' (published by Prentice-Hall). This term was first introduced by B. Matérn in his original 1948 publication on forestry in Sweden and was also used in the 1960 translation (with updates) from the Swedish version. The term 'géostatistique' was introduced by Matheron in 1962, as was the term 'kriging', although the latter appeared as a French word in a footnote. Matérn and Matheron also note that the concern around the adoption and acceptance of geostatistics was not related primarily to the mathematical complexities, but rather to the poor communication about the '... conceptual and psychological interpretation oj the given phenomena...' between methodical mathematicians, practical mining engineers, and intuitive geologists.
They also identified three periods in the development of geostatistics, the earliest being 1945-1965 when linear geostatistics was developed. Application of the lognormal distribution to gold mining by Herbert Sichel was followed by Danie Krige's application of regression analysis between sampling and mining blocks for resource estimation. These works allowed Georges Matheron to fully develop the linear geostatistics of his doctoral thesis in 1965.
The second period, between 1966 and 1974, saw the development of nonlinear geostatistics on location at Centre de Geostatistique in Fontainebleau. M. David and G. Matheron made important contributions, but A.G. Journel, Ch. J. Huijbregts, P. Delfiner, P. Chauvet, and J.P. Chiles are said to have developed nonlinear geostatistics during this period. It is interesting to note how the number of publications escalated after the end of this period (Figure 1), but I leave the reader to interpret this observation. The third period between, 1974 and 1987, dealt with complex problems including ore/waste selection, change of support, transfer functions, parameterization of reserves, disjunctive kriging, and indicator kriging (Matheron and Kleingeld, 1987). Since that time, the interest and growth in geostatistics has shaped the extraction of minerals and metals from ore deposits around the world.
This volume is about geostatistics, its development, growth, and applications in the earth and natural sciences, but its importance lies in both the quality of the papers and the number and stature of the contributors in the geostatistical fraternity. This will indeed be a memorable volume. Of particular importance is the fact that the research presented here is at the forefront of the thrust in geostatistical research, and the collection of papers taken together indicates the forward direction for the frontiers of geostatistical research. I asked an eminent geostatistician where he thought the new frontiers of geostatistical research lay, and I believe that, collectively, the papers in this volume answer that question.
It is hoped that you will enjoy reading this volume as it commemorates the work of Professor Danie Krige and reflects the latest in global thinking about geostatistics.
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That is, Visa stuck to its knitting and dominated the niche, while MasterCard went into a bunch of other businesses and trailed like a puppy after a bigger dog.
Maybe my prejudice came down to regionalism. Coca-Cola is based in Atlanta, where I now live, and MasterCard, like Pepsico, is based in Purchase, N.Y., outside New York City.
It's also possible that in this case I was wrong.
While the two stocks have marked each other closely since Visa did its IPO in 2008, it was MasterCard that came up with the idea of going public first, in 2006. If you got into that deal at $39/share, the IPO price, you are a very happy camper -- the shares are up over 1,000% and now trade at $523.
I think the difference between MasterCard and Visa these days comes down to offense vs. defense. The battlefield on which they play is data. The way they see data makes the difference.
Visa focuses on the business of processing transactions. They define the industry's security procedures, which they take very seriously and enforce rigorously.
MasterCard is focused more on what transaction data means, and how it can be used to create more transactions. It quietly launched an online mall called MasterCard Marketplace in 2010 based on NextJump's reward program technology. By connecting member banks' reward programs to the marketplace, MasterCard builds shopper dossiers on customers. The more you use it to get free stuff, the more it learns about for what you're willing to pay.
Free stuff is the new way to build profit into credit cards. With cards taking a discount of 2%-5% to process a transaction for merchants, plus interest and fees from the customer, there's plenty of money to create a reward program that makes sure that money keeps flowing in. Credit cards have replaced the old Green Stamps from when I was a kid, with data making them much more valuable to merchants than before.
Rather than just offer "reward points" based on purchase volume, MasterCard lets merchants award "WOWpoints" of anywhere from 1% to 5% of the purchase price, giving them more control over the process. Off this data it also offers "overwhelming offers," a sort of Groupon with national merchants aimed at building store and brand loyalty.
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