“Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.” KnowsHas BeensArtProcessNatureDegreesSurpriseFinished Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.” MenFirstsArtUniverseNatureHolyDegreesManifestation Book:William Shakespeare Source: William Shakespeare
“It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.” MindTruthNatureSubjectsDegreesMarkExcellenceSatisfiedEducatedUncertainPrecisionApproximationExactnessEducated Mind Author:Aristotle
“It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.” KnowsMenKindArtMadeScienceSocialNatureQualityVirtueTreeDegreesFruitBitterNativeYieldSavagesViciousSourImplantsGrafting Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.” DoeDifferentReasonScienceLyingNatureLinesLevelsTreeColdHigherShapesMountainDegreesCloudsCirclesComplexityDrySpheresLightningSmoothInabilityGeometryExhibitsBarkStraight LinesDifferent LevelsConesFractalsCoastline Author:Benoit Mandelbrot