Epistemology

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Epistemology:

"Heisenberg said that observation alters the phenomenon observed. T.S. Eliot said that studying history alters history. Ezra Pound said that thinking in general alters what is thought about. Pound's formulation is the most general, and I think it's the earliest."

Citations

1. Hugh Kenner, "The Rope and the Knot," Kentucky Review, Autumn 1968, who attributes this quote to RBF