“Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round...” — Walter Pater Quote

“Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.”

“A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?”

“Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.”

“I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.”

“However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.”

“Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.”