There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador DaliRead
And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
Interpretation
Dali suggests that the discovery of DNA is a significant indication of a higher power's existence.
In this quote, Salvador Dali expresses his belief that the unraveling of the DNA structure by Watson and Crick serves as profound evidence of the divine. He implies that such complex and intricate biological design cannot be purely coincidental, hinting at a belief in a creator or a higher power responsible for the marvels of life.
In practice
In a lecture on the intersection of science and spirituality.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'
We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
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