#subtler

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

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One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#deeper #equip #gripping #himself #knowing

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ↗

— George Byron

#butler #daughters #grow #husbands #off

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ↗

— Richard Powers

#condition #control #cultivating #face #forever