"The soul of wit may become the very……" — Aldous Huxley

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• Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference… — Francis Bacon
• The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments… — James Prescott Joule
• The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about… — Richard Kalvar
• A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted. — Thurston Moore
• You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and… — Joy Williams
• The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which… — Francis Bacon
• I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for… — Tom Robbins
• A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene,… — Matthew Barney
• It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns… — Kenny Smith
• All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing — Johann Gottfried Herder
• Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as… — Robert Musil
• A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of… — William Gibson

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