A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born. The insight is then born with anxiety, guilt, and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Hierarchical clustering for children and adults based on fuzzy recurrence eigenvalues.
Exploring Nonlinear Dynamics In Brain Functionality Through Phase Portraits And Fuzzy Recurrence Plots
Qiang Li, Vince D Calhoun, Tuan D. Pham, Armin Iraji
bioRxiv 2023.07.06.547922; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.06.547922
The word “incunabula” is Latin, a neuter plural meaning “swaddling clothes” or “cradle.” In book history, it is used to refer to all books printed with metal type from the beginning of Gutenberg’s movable type printing press, around 1455, to the end of 1500. This is an arbitrary but traditional date that marks the end of the “infancy” of printing, as it rapidly spread to centers across Europe and into the Americas. Known as “incunables” in Spanish and French (and often in English), “incunaboli” in Italian, and “incunábulos” in Portuguese, these earliest of printed books have long been of great interest to librarians, book collectors, and historians of the book.
What Are Incunabula?, The University of Chicago Library
We need to cultivate fertility of thought as we have cultivated efficiency in administration. We need to find some mechanism by which an invention of interest to the public may effectively be dedicated to the public. We cannot afford to erode the brains of the country as we have eroded its soil. We must not be serfs, written down as property in the books of our entrepreneurs. We need a system in which variability and adaptability are at a premium and not at a discount. We need an organization which is awake to the facts of invention, and of our ever-greater dependence on more invention. If man is to continue to exist, he must not be an afterthought to business.
Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
