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"TOWARD PERFECTION: Kapellasite, Cu3Zn(OH)6Cl2, a New Model S = 1/2 Kagome Antiferromagnet." https://lnkd.in/d9ywQkc View in LinkedIn

IDEALIZED FORMS. "Crystalline perfection of high purity synthetic diamond crystal. It was found that by using strain-free and low defect crystals for the seeds, the line defects (dislocation bundles) could be removed, thereby improving the crystalline quality of the synthetic type IIa diamonds." https://lnkd.in/dvbdJFi View in LinkedIn

CRYSTAL MANTRA. "Growth and perfection of crystals." (1958). https://lnkd.in/dWj5wfY View in LinkedIn

AN ORDERLY WORLD VIEW was driven by crystallography. “Why water boils at 100ºC and methane at -161ºC; why blood is red and grass is green; why diamond is hard and wax is soft; why graphite writes on paper and silk is strong; why glaciers flow and iron gets hard when you hammer it; how muscles contract; how sunlight makes plants grow and how living organisms have been able to evolve into ever more complex forms…? The answers to all these problems have come from structural analysis.” (Max Perutz) https://lnkd.in/dbrsipp View in LinkedIn

PROGRESS TOWARDS PERFECTION. "As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection." (Darwin). https://lnkd.in/dWKSysJ View in LinkedIn

SELECTIVE magical thinking has bred a mountain of erroneous publications whose primary motivation is to see the hand of god in nature. https://lnkd.in/dffiSnf View in LinkedIn

BREAK WITH THE PAST. "Perfection and progress were abstractions that had no place in Darwin's pragmatic and relativistic scheme." Yet there were many nods towards the older (and religious) viewpoint. https://lnkd.in/dqgy8Hd View in LinkedIn

MAGICAL THINKING. "Fabicconi numbers in nature, selective and seductive.” https://lnkd.in/dHb3uBz View in LinkedIn

PREVAILING PERFECTION VIEW. "The concept of perfection in the natural world was integral to pre-Darwinian rationalizations of nature as evidence of the designing hand of a providential Creator." https://lnkd.in/dqgy8Hd View in LinkedIn

TRANSCENDENTALIST VIEW. "Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole." (Ralph Waldo Emerson). https://lnkd.in/dXaHRqi View in LinkedIn