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Here today, Gone tomorrow...

2017-09-25 · 2,182 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Here today, Gone tomorrow... — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Such is the advantage of a well-constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound
Here today, Gone tomorrow... — pen and ink drawing

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"Such is the advantage of a well-constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories." – Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace

"The historian...has to conform to official interpretations of the past, the philosopher to dogmas, the writer to stereotypes of human action, the craftsman to 'production-schedules'....." – John Passmore, "The Perfectibility of Man" (1971).

"Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw, And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw: Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide Return and back into your Sun subside." – Attar, in 'The Conference of the Birds' (1177).

"I would not expect religion to be the right tool for sequencing the human…

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