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“Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.”
Source : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.131, U of Nebraska Press
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“Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.”
Source : Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12
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“There is no true life within a false life.”
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“From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.”
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“Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricists posits the forms of being as constant.”
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“I just mix and put things together the way the spirit moves me.”
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“What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
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“If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.”
Source : "Where is Science Taking Us? Gerald Holton Maps the Possible Routes". The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 18, 1981.
