Sep 5, 2007

Think about Interconnection and the relationship btw 2 quotes

Two Quotes Again:
Florence Nightingale
“Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.”
Stephen Hawking
"God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen"

Florence talks about Asceticism in her quote. What is Asceticism? It describes a life characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures. The aim of asceticism is to achieve greater spirituality, to purify the body helps to purify the soul. Its philosophy is fairly base on the theology. But Florence explains the asceticism in another way, which outlines the social phenomenon, which base on the sociology. So that we can say: the quote has a theological appearance, but with the scientific arguments. On the other hand, Stephen Hawking plays his quote in an opposite way. He gives the sample of “God plays dice and throw into an invisible place” to describe his scientific discovery -”Black Hole”. They maybe used the different expressions, but they all used Science as their criterion.

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