The finished half was my father's office: safe, rational, home to sweets and secrets.
But it seems that lightning, the epitome of frightening and untameable natural phenomena, still has a few secrets hidden from rational modern man.
There is a deep human need for secrets that transcends all rational explanations.
Aristotle says that the Pythagoreans "guarded among their very secret doctrines that one type of rational being is divine, one human, and one such as Pythagoras" (Iamblichus, VP 31).
Notwithstanding the rational behavior of our government to enhance trade-secret protection and our businesses to use this protection, the contraction of the patent system undermines our innovation economy, especially for less-flexible industries.
A secret of the studio is that the rational part is often the creative part.
I saw him in stadiums with thousands of people, so have a rational understanding that he was in no sense my secret, that he was in fact a superstar.
Now you might think that there is some very rational way to get to know science?s trade secrets.
Lucky pipettes and secret rituals abound within the world of allegedly rational science, and I am learning to accept that sometimes experiments just don?t work.
