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In a very deep sense all human science is but the increment of the power of the eye, and all human art is the increment of the power of the hand.

— John Fiske The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin (1884)

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Science is but the increment of the power of the eye, and...art is the increment of the power of the hand.

A discourse is "a language or system of representation that has developed socially in order to make and circulate a coherent set of meanings about an important topic area."

In every part of the animal world we find implements of torture surpassing in devilish ingenuity anything that was ever seen in the dungeons of the Inquisition.

Man does not dwell at the centre of things, but is the denizen of an obscure and tiny speck of cosmical matter quite invisible amid the innumerable throng of flaming suns that make up our galaxy.

The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin (1884)

The ability to imagine relations is one of the most indispensable conditions of all precise thinking. No subject can be named, in the investigation of which it is not imperatively needed; but it can nowhere else be so thoroughly acquired as in the study of mathematics.

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