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• In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
• At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at…
• A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like…
• Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees…
• All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
• Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it…
• Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the…
• Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
• Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
• The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to…
• Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to…
• Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power…

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