Harvey A Rose - Physicist, Los Alamos
Artist
Anna Christine Hansen
Date1988
Mediumchromogenic color print
Dimensions20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1989 General Obligation Bonds
Object numberPC1990.69.53
DescriptionThis color photograph is of physicist Harvey A. Rose with a written inscription and signature by Rose underneath. Rose is posing in a chair at a desk smiling at the camera.The inscription reads:
Does reality have an objective meaning? If it does, how might that meaning be revealed. What can human thought say about reality? Concerning the first two questions, I have no idea. The third shouldn't even be asked, but...
Since one is continually arriving at new ways to think about the world, any particular way is a tool or heuristic for understanding reality. It is hard to imagine that anything more can be attained.
Many of our perceptions are concerned with isolated events, events within our personal experience. Even if the reality of these events was understood, the global consequences and connections are not necessarily revealed.
[signed Harvey A. Rose '88]
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