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"But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud."
"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."
"You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."
"We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth."
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"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."
"Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh."
"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to."
"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."
"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
"To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts."
"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."
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