Saturday, February 4, 2012

Saturday's Quote

I like the way that logician Susanne Langer (1895-1985) thought, at least based on this particular insight:

"It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the 'higher criticism,' the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age."

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