All Perceiving Is Also Thinking, All Reasoning

Nothing Is More Humbling Than To Look With A Strong Magnifying Glass At An Insect So Tiny That The Naked Eye Sees Only The Barest Speck And To Discover That Nevertheless It Is Sculpted And Articulated And Striped With The Same Care And Imagination.

Form Is Sometimes Considered A Mere Spice Added By The Artist To The Representation Of Objects In Order To Make It Pleasurable.

When A System Is Considered In Two Different States, The Difference In Volume Or In Any Other Property, Between The Two States, Depends Solely Upon Those States Themselves And Not Upon The Manner In Which The System May Pass From One State To The Other.

A Cloud Can Look Like A Camel, But A Camel Is Unlikely To Look Like A Cloud. This Is So Because The Signifier Must Be Able To Stand For The Whole Category Of The Signified. The Cloud Looks Like All Camels, But No Camel Looks Like All Clouds.

It Would Be Most Wholesome If For At Least Twenty Years Art Historians Were Forbidden To Refer To Any Derivations. If They Were Not Allowed To Account For A Work Of Art Mainly By Tracing Where It Comes From, They Would Have To Deal With It In And By Itself--which Is What They Are Most Needed For.