Famous quotes containing the words human and/or tissue:
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called “real life” of the so- called average man, one thing is fortunately certain: namely, that the average man himself is but a piece of fiction, a tissue of statistics.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)