Earlier this week I posted a quote from his 5,000 word poetic essay What I Have Learned: How Little I Know. Here are a few others.
On education:
We have thought erroneously of education
As the mature wisdom
And the over-brimming knowledge of the grownups
Injected by the discipline pump
Into the otherwise "empty" child's head.
On policy design:
I have learned to undertake
Reform of the environment
And not to try to reform man.
If we design the environment properly
It will permit child and man to develop safely
And to behave logically.
On the definition of life:
No sharp cleavage is found
Which identifies the boundary between life and non-life
Between the heretofore so-called "animate" and "inanimate." [...]
The DNA/RNA genetic code is essentially
A structural pattern integrity.
Such pattern integrities
Are strictly accountable
Only as mathematical principles
Pattern integrities are found
At all levels of structural organization in universe.
The DNA/RNA is a specialized case
Of the generalized principle of pattern integrity
Found throughout life and non-life.
On the origin of life:
Within the order of evolution as usually drawn
Life "occurred" as a series
Of fortuitous probabilities in the primeval sea. [...]
It seems more likely
(In view of the continuous rediscovery of man
As a fully organized being
Back to the ever more remote periods)
That the inanimate structural pattern integrity,
Which we call human being,
Was a frequency modulation code message
Beamed at earth from a remote location.
Man as prime organizing
"Principle" construct
Was radiated here from the stars― [...]
Possibly as the synergetic totality
Of all the gravitation
And radiation effects
Of all the stars
In our galaxy
And from all adjacent galaxies
With some weak effects
And some strong effects
And from all time.
He closes this way:
And pattern itself being weightless
The life integrities are apparently
Inherently immortal.
You and I
Are essential functions
Of universe
We are exquisite anti-entropy.
I'll be seeing you!
Forever.
