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Elemental Composition

2017-04-21 · 2,331 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Elemental Composition — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor? – Marshall McLuhan, 'Understanding Media' (1964). "In these d
Elemental Composition — pen and ink drawing

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"A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor? – Marshall McLuhan, 'Understanding Media' (1964).

"In these days the angel of topology and the devil of abstract algebra fight for the soul of each individual mathematical domain." – Hermann Weyl (1939).

"I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through." This sentence, the noblest ever spoken, this sentence that defines man's place in the universe, that honors him, that re-establishes the true hierarchy, floated back into my thoughts. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 'Wind, Sand and Stars'.

"The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible…

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