Michael Schaffner
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It is a commonplace that men are all agreed in using symbols, and all differ about the meaning of the symbols.
In a way, these things they’d gathered were an illusion. A way to reassure themselves that they were doing something to prepare.
Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis and Quotes on Models and Their Uses
For the meaning of woods is the combination of energy with complexity. A forest is not in the least rude or barbarous; it is only dense with delicacy.
Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
enumeration and sampling. multi era.
Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights.
Quotes on Models and Their Uses and Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
What is vitally needed everywhere, in art as much as in ethics, in poetry as much as in politics, is choice; a creative power in the will as well as in the mind. Without that self–limitation of somebody, nothing living will ever see the light.
‘this is indeed a meeting which is calculated to impress the mind with a sense of the instability and uncertainty of all human—in short, it is a most extraordinary meeting.
the main principle of art, the principle which is in most danger of being forgotten in our time. I mean the fact that art consists of limitation; the fact that art is limitation. Art does not consist in expanding things. Art consists of cutting things down,
he is a poet in this real sense, that he has realised the meaning of every function he has performed.