"The "real world" is a construct, and some peculiarities of scientific thought become more intelligible when this fact is recognized ... Einstein himself in 1926 told Heisenberg it was nonsense to found a theory on observable facts alone, saying "In reality the very opposite happens. It is theory which decides what we can observe." "

D. O. Hebb

Posts tagged with 'grief'

Edie: New year intentions

1st January 2009

Sadness. I woke feeling sad ... aching in my chest and then in my gut. Not awful, just like a dull toothache, or a hurt, a wound. Yesterday when I visited my mother in the Stroke Unit of Liberton Hospital, one of the more senior nurses came up to me …

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