John Fiske (philosopher)
John Fiske (philosopher)
John Fiske was an American philosopher and historian. He was heavily influenced by Herbert Spencer and applied Spencer's concepts of evolution to his own writings on linguistics, philosophy, religion, and history.
"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 nowhere else be so thoroughly acquired as in the study of mathematics."
John Fiske (philosopher)"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 (philosopher)"In a very deep sense all human science is but the increment of the power of the eye, and all human art is the increment of the power of the hand."
John Fiske (philosopher)
