Fred Cooper - Theoretical Physicist, Los Alamos and Santa Fe Institute
Artist
Anna Christine Hansen
Date1988
Mediumchromogenic color print
Dimensions14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1989 General Obligation Bonds
Object numberPC1990.69.55
DescriptionThis color photograph is of theoretical physicist Fred Cooper with a written inscription and signature by Cooper underneath. Cooper is seated in a chair behind a desk with a book open in his hands as he looks at the camera.The inscription reads:
Our reality is mostly a creature of our minds. We start from our sense data as input. We then interpret this sense data according to the current accepted belief system -- whether religious or scientific. In science we see these belief systems change every few years -- one year everything is made up of everything else, the next year there are fundamental blobs of matter and so on. Has reality changed! NO! Only our minds have changed.
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