《道德經》

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道德經 第五十一章

道，德，物，勢

1. 道， via, vir/vira, vita, ultimately from PIE *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)
2. 德， virtūs/virtue
3. 物， physics (物理 wùlǐ) substance, content
4. 勢， power; force; momentum; influence

道生之，德畜*之，物形之，勢成之

1. 道 produces, generates
2. The Innate Exigence gathers and rears
3. The Innate Form shapes
4. The Momentum creates

道生之，德畜之，物形之，勢成之。

是以萬物莫不尊道而貴德。

道之尊，德之貴，夫莫之命常自然。

故道生之，德畜之；長之育之；亭之毒之；養之覆之。

生而不有，為而不恃，長而不宰，是謂玄德。

Dao De Jing Chapter Fifty-one — C. Ganson

51

道 causes all things to exist; 德 sustains them.

Reality gives them form; fate completes them.

Thus all things honour 道 and respect 德

of their own accord.

德 sustains all things in existence.

It fosters growth, develops them,

harbours them, provides shelter.

It nourishes them, gives protection.

Everything exists through 道

and nothing is rejected.

Everything is produced through 道

but 道 is not possessive.

道 is superior but never interferes.

Dao De Jing Chapter Fifty-one — James Legge

51 (The operation (of the Dao) in nourishing things)

All things are produced by the Dao, and nourished by its outflowing operation. They receive their forms according to the nature of each and are completed according to the circumstances of their condition. Therefore all things without exception honour the Dao and exalt its outflowing operation.

This honouring of the Dao and exalting of its operation is not the result of any ordination, but always a spontaneous tribute.

Thus it is that the Dao produces (all things), nourishes them, brings them to their full growth, nurses them, completes them, matures them, maintains them, and overspreads them.

It produces them and makes no claim to the possession of them; it carries them through their processes and does not vaunt its ability in doing so; it brings them to maturity and exercises no control over them; - this is called its mysterious operation.

Dao De Jing Chapter Fifty-one — Arthur Waley

51

道 gave them birth;

The “power” of 道 reared them,

Shaped them according to their kinds,

Perfected them, giving to each its strength.

Therefore

Of the ten thousand things there is no one that does not worship 道

And do homage to its “power”.

No mandate ever went forth that accorded to 道 the right to be worshipped,

Nor to its “power” the right to be worshipped,

Nor to its “power” the right to receive homage.

It was always and of itself so.

Therefore as Tao bore them and the “power” of 道 reared them,

Made them grow, fostered them,

Harboured them,

Brewed for them,

So you must rear them, but not lay claim to them,

Control them, but never lean upon them,

Be chief among them, but not manage them.

This is called the mysterious power.”

Quark

Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1963. The literary connection to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake was asserted later for some time, as M. Gell-Mann was undecided on an actual spelling for the term he intended to coin until he found the word quark in James Joyce's 1939 book Finnegans Wake:

– Three quarks for Muster Mark!

Sure he hasn't got much of a bark

And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.

The word quark is an outdated English word meaning to croak and the above-quoted lines are about a bird choir mocking king Mark of Cornwall in the legend of Tristan and Iseult. Especially in the German-speaking parts of the world, there is a widespread legend however that Joyce had taken it from the word Quark, a German word of Slavic origin which denotes a dairy product, but is also a colloquial term for "rubbish". In the legend, it is said that he had heard it on a journey to Germany at a peasant market in Freiburg. Some authors however defend a possible German origin of Joyce's word quark. Murray Gell-Mann went into further detail regarding the name of the quark in his 1994 book The Quark and the Jaguar:

"In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been "kwork". Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word "quark" in the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark". Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of the gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with "Mark", as well as "bark" and other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as "kwork". But the book represents the dream of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the "portmanteau" words in Through the Looking-Glass. From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry "Three quarks for Muster Mark" might be "Three quarts for Mister Mark", in which case the pronunciation "kwork" would not be totally unjustified. In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature.

George Zweig preferred the name ace for the particle he had theorized, but Murray Gell-Mann's terminology came to prominence once the quark model had been commonly accepted.

* 畜

䷈ 小畜 the ninth hexagram of the 易經, known as "Small accumulating".

• the inner (lower) trigram is ☰ (乾 qián) force = (天) heaven,
• its outer (upper) trigram is ☴ (巽 xùn) ground = (風) wind.

䷙ 大畜 the twenty-sixth hexagram of 易經, known as "Great Accumulating".

• the inner trigram is ☰ (乾 qián) force = (天) heaven,
• its outer trigram is ☶ (艮 gèn) bound = (山) mountain.

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