Jamil

When one says "tan(10) to 100th" what does he mean? Does it mean tan(10)^(0.100) or tan(10)^(1/100) or what? or does it mean that the answer should be stated up to two digit carrying after decimal?

He says to Curly, "Say, Paul! I'd like you to meet my friend Dan."

Well I'm so dumb I don't realize I'm being intimidated; all I knew is right and wrong.

He can open a safe cold - in few minutes.

Now I could write a book and at the beginning I would tell how I opened safes whose contents were bigger and more valuable that what any safecracker anywhere had opened - except for a life, of course - but compare to the furs or the gold bullion, I have them all beat.

When we started to work on our project in the lab, everything was in such a hurry that it wasn't really ready.

What is the meaning of '. . . that it wasn't really ready'?

I remembered the time I was in my room when the idea came into my head completely out of the blue that my mother was dead. Right after that there was a telephone call, just like that. It was for John Bennet--my mother was not dead. So I remembered that, in case somebody told me a story that ened the other way.

Now my questions:

(1) what is it meant by '. . ., just like that.',

(1) What is it meant by 'So I remembered that, in case somebody told me a story that ened the other way.'

And while you don't get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an exellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on - that you are specially chosen, and lucky to be there.

Later in the morning I made believe I woke up and came downstairs a little late.

There's a pole, and there's a rope that comes down from the top. When you hold the rope straight down, it's three feet longer than the pole, and when you pull the rope out tight, it's five feet from the base of the pole. How high is the pole?

Somehow, I had become tired of making these observations, and my brain had invented some false reasons as to why I shouldn't do it any more.

The text is this:

Another time I'm dreaming and I hear "knock-knock; knock-knock." Something was happening in the dream that made this knocking fit, but not perfectly - it seemed sort of foreign.

Now:

What does 'knocking fit, but not perfectly' mean?

A TUZZO LANTO

-Poici di Pare

TANto SAca TULna TI, na PUta TUchi PUti TI la.

RUNto CAta CHANto CHANta MANto CHI la TI da.

YALta CAra SULda MI la CHAta Picha Pino Tito BRALda

pe te CHIna nana CHUNda lala CHINda lala CHUNda!

RONto piti CA le, a TANto CHINto quinta LALda

O la TiNta dalla LALta, YENta PUcha lalla TALta!

In calling the structure of the chromosome fibers a code-script we mean tha the all-penetrating mind, once conceived by Laplace, to which every causal connection lay immediatley open, could tell from their structure whether the egg would develop, under suitable conditions, into a black cock or a specked hen.

What is the meaning of the 'all-penetrating mind' and in particular the meaning of the 'In calling the structure of the chromosome fibers a code-script we mean tha the all-penetrating mind, once conceived by Laplace, to which every causal connection lay immediatley open'?

The term 'code-script' is, of course, too narrow. The chromosome structures are at the same time instrumental in bringing about the development they foreshadow. They are law-code and executive power - or, to use another simile, they are architect's plan and builder's craft - in one.

My Questions:

(1) What is the meaning of '-' in law-code and 'code-script'?

(2) What is the meaning instrumental?

(3) Can one write this text in simpler manner?

In an echo of fin de siecle Vienna, liasons between married members of the academic set and others were regarded as normal.

Although he was happy to bring me up to speed on his background, really wanted to talk about sport.

All science is a function of the soul, in which all knowledge is rooted. The soul is the greatest of all cosmic miracles, it is the conditio sine qua non of the world as an object. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken as a result of recent experiences in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

My question: Since I am a scientist and I dont realy understand philosophy could you please explain to me the above text in simple words.