Ground Quotes (2)
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground on which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. (1918)
'À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs', À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27).
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.
Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh during the session 1927-28. Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929, 1979), 5.
See also: | Acute (2) | Air (25) | Airplane (13) | Discovery (166) | Flight (14) | Flight (14) | Imagination (50) | Interpretation (14) | Method (12) | Observation (142) | Particular (3) | Rational (9) | Renew (2) | True (4)
