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Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

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Architecture is the concrete presentment in space of the soul of a people.

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Architecture is preeminently the art of significant forms in space — that is, forms significant of their functions.

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Common sense neither leads nor lags, but is ever limited to the passing moment: the common knowledge of to-day was the mystery and enchantment of the day before yesterday, and will be the mere commonplace of the day after to-morrow.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Claude Fayette Bragdon

Claude Fayette Bragdon

Born: August 1, 1866
Died: September 17, 1946 (aged 80)
Bio: Claude Fayette Bragdon was an American architect, writer, and stage designer based in Rochester, New York, up to World War I, then in New York City.
Known for:
  1. Projective Ornament (1915)
  2. The Beautiful Necessity (1910)
  3. Primer of higher space (the fourth dimension) (1913)
  4. More Lives Than One
  5. Yoga for You (1943)

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