When theoretical physicists censor the public's spontaneous… - Theodore Roszak

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When theoretical physicists censor the public's spontaneous visualizing response by warning us we must not try to picture the underlying nature of the world, whether atoms or quarks or preons, they are drawing upon an intellectual discipline devised by Calvin. Reality is beyond the senses; only the rigorously logical mind, leaping bravely into the intangible, can grasp it. No images.

Theodore Roszak

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Theodore Roszak (November 15, 1933 – July 5, 2011) was an American historian, author, scholar, pacifist, teacher and social critic. He taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, and San Francisco State University; he was professor emeritus of history at California State University Hayward.

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