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«The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Understanding
| Keywords:
distorting, distorts, false, irregularly, mingles, mingling, mirror, rayed, rays, receiving, The Nature of Things, X ray
«The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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imaginative, improvident, impulsively, informed, irregularly, reckless, thoughtful, well-informed
«How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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bathtub, cashier, cashiers, closing, colleague, incomprehensibility, irregularly, pipe, rival, shaped, the good old days, The Standard, unfavorably, waste paper, waste pipe
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