Certainty Abolishes Hope, And Robs

The Way In Which The Photograph Records Experience Is Also Different From The Way Of Language. Language Makes Sense Only When It Is Presented As A Sequence Of Propositions. Meaning Is Distorted When A Word Or Sentence Is, As We Say, Taken Out Of Context; When A Reader Or Listener Is Deprived Of What Was Said Before, And After. But There Is No Such Thing As A Photograph Taken Out Of Context, For A Photograph Does Not Require One. In Fact, The Point Of Photography Is To Isolate Images From Context, So As To Make Them Visible In A Different Way.

I Believe I Am Not Mistaken In Saying That Christianity Is A Demanding And Serious Religion. When It Is Delivered As Easy And Amusing, It Is Another Kind Of Religion Altogether.

There Is No Escaping From Ourselves. The Human Dilemma Is As It Has Always Been, And We Solve Nothing Fundamental By Cloaking Ourselves In Technological Glory.

My Argument Is Limited To Saying That A Major New Medium Changes The Structure Of Discourse; It Does So By Encouraging Certain Uses Of The Intellect, By Favoring Certain Definitions Of Intelligence And Wisdom, And By Demanding A Certain Kind Of Content - In A Phrase, By Creating New Forms Of Truth-telling.

'the Scientific Method,' Thomas Henry Huxley Once Wrote, 'is Nothing But The Normal Working Of The Human Mind.' That Is To Say, When The Mind Is Working; That Is To Say Further, When It Is Engaged In Correcting Its Mistakes.