“Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.” MayRecordsLive ByPhenomenonFossilsFallibility Author:D. V. Ager
“Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, 'I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.' He knew how insidious other people's ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision.” PeopleIfsWayMaySaidUseVisionRecordsPhotographyProfoundAffectedInsidiousFree YourselfPersonal Vision Author:Paul Strand
“Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."” MayPastScienceRecordsPhenomenonRapidsGeology Author:D. V. Ager
“My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.” MindMayIdeasDifferentMatterEyeFilmMy OwnRecordsSubjectsCamerasSensitiveSilverSubject MatterDifferent Subjects Book:Edward Weston on photography Source: Edward Weston on photography
“History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.” WellsMayEducationLibertyRecordsFieldsProgramBillsSavedCrashForerunners Author:Lyndon B. Johnson