Quoted
Thu Oct 15 2009
Post a comment— William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.
Robert Bateman on his ‘Overt Environmental Message’
Mon Oct 12 2009
Post a commentFrom time to time it comes to me that I’ve got something to say. I’m not out there trying to be David Suzuki in acrylic [though] you know I do often talk that way. But there are a number of paintings… I think the most important, one of the most important paintings I’ve done is called Driftnet.
[as quoted on ‘Q: The Podcast for Friday, October 9, 2009.]
More on Bateman here.
