Source: New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (1941), p. 3
“Images and pictures… have played a key role in shaping our scientific picture of the world. …Carefully constructed families of pictures can act as a calculus all their own. Like any successful systems of symbols, with an appropriate grammar they enlarge the number of things that we can do without consciously thinking.”
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Source: 1900s, Notes d'un Peintre (Notes of a Painter) (1908), p. 410
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