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Melvil Dewey based his system on Francis Bacon’s Advancement of Learning.
Deborah Harkness • The Black Bird Oracle
This paradox of comprehension was articulated explicitly by a great physicist of an earlier age: “Sir Isaac Newton, when asked what he thought of the infatuations of the people, answered that he could calculate the motions of erratic bodies, but not the madness of a multitude” (quoted from The Church of England Quarterly Review, 1850).
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
La philosophie antique propose à l’homme un art de vivre, au contraire la philosophie moderne se présente avant tout comme la construction d’un langage technique réservé à des spécialistes
Pierre Hadot • Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique (Bibliothèque de l'Evolution de l'Humanité) (French Edition)
Terence McKenna on translating the Hermetic corpus over Plato:
... See moreNear the start of the Renaissance, Jemistus Pletho brought books to the Florentine council for translation. Medici said, “Plato can wait, I’m getting old, do the Hermetic Corpus first, it’s much more important, we’ll do Plato later.” A few years later, 1493, Cosmo Medici died and never s
But it is not known whether the principle obscurely described in the specification was applicable in any way to the invisible agency employed in Psycho.The punch line was that the article was signed "John Algernon Clarke." So the author claimed he was mystified by his own creation and couldn't properly determine whether his own patent was
... See moreTeller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Philosophie antique, psychologie moderne
Jules Evans • La philo, c'est la vie ! (Poche) (French Edition)
