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Maria Mitchell quote: "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all..."

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.

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Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of... Mervyn Peake
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. Louis L'Amour
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When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays. Darius Rucker
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My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind. Alister Hardy
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