 The wish to capture evanescent reflections is not only impossible, as has been shown by thorough German investigation, but the mere desire alone, the will to do so, is blasphemy. God created man in His own image, and no man-made machine may fix the image...  More Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor - Page 342by Michael J. Rosen - 2002 - 592 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Geoffrey Batchen - Photography - 2002 - 254 pages
...evanescent reflections is not only impossible, as has been shown by thorough German investigation, but the mere desire alone, the will to do so, is blasphemy" (emphasis added), quoted in Gernsheim, The Origins of Photography, 50. 35. Michel Foucault, The Order... | |
 | Rebecca Stefoff - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2008 - 152 pages
...and it was a French invention, which made it even worse: "The wish to capture evanescent [passing] reflections is not only impossible . . . but the mere...and no man-made machine may fix the image of God. Is it possible that God should have abandoned His eternal principles, and allowed a Frenchman ... to... | |
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