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"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science."
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"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."

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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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