Famous quotes containing the words reduced and/or matrix:
“Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)