A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.
I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.
I like to learn things slow, I like learning alot, I like to get it all again and in the end, You know you get what you got...
A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.
