The Fundamental Peculiarity Of The

Nothing Is More Humbling Than To Look With A Strong Magnifying Glass At An Insect So Tiny That The Naked Eye Sees Only The Barest Speck And To Discover That Nevertheless It Is Sculpted And Articulated And Striped With The Same Care And Imagination.

Art Is Continually Working To Take The Crust Of Familiarity Off Everyday Objects.

A System Is In Equilibrium When The Forces Constituting It Are Arranged In Such A Way As To Compensate Each Other, Like The Two Weights Pulling At The Arms Of A Pair Of Scales.

A Cloud Can Look Like A Camel, But A Camel Is Unlikely To Look Like A Cloud. This Is So Because The Signifier Must Be Able To Stand For The Whole Category Of The Signified. The Cloud Looks Like All Camels, But No Camel Looks Like All Clouds.

The Arts Are Neglected Because They Are Based On Perception, And Perception Is Disdained Because It Is Not Assumed To Involve Thought.