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The United States—bounded on the north by the Aurora Borealis, on the south by the precession of the equinoxes, on the east by the primeval chaos, and on the west by the Day of Judgement.

John Fiske

Man does not dwell at the centre of things, but is the denizen of an obscure and tiny speck of cosmical matter quite invisible amid the innumerable throng of flaming suns that make up our galaxy.

John Fiske

All human science is but the increment of the power of the eye..

John Fiske

The ability to imagine relations is one of the most indispensable conditions of all precise thinking. No subject can be named in the investigation of which it is not imperatively needed; but it can be nowhere else so thoroughly acquired as in the study of mathematics.

John Fiske

John Fiske

John Fiske

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Born: March 30, 1842

Died: July 4, 1901 (aged 59)

Bio: John Fiske was an American philosopher and historian.

Known for:

Television Culture
Understanding Popular Culture
Introduction to Communication Studies
Reading the Popular
Myths and mythmakers (1872)

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