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This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have su... - MORE This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

George Gordon Noel Byron

universities and colleges

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From man or angel the great Architect
Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge... - MORE From man or angel the great Architect
Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge
His secrets to be scanned by them who ought
Rather admire; or if they list to try
Conjecture, he his fabric of the heav'ns
Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move
His laughter at their quaint opinions wide
Hereafter, when they come to model heav'n
And calculate the stars, how they will wield
The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive
To save appearances, how gird the sphere
With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er,
Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.

John Milton

science

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Now entertain conjecture of a time
When creeping murmur and the poring dark
Fills the wide vessel of the universe. - MORE Now entertain conjecture of a time
When creeping murmur and the poring dark
Fills the wide vessel of the universe.

Shakespeare

night | universe, the | imagination

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What these perplexities of my uncle Toby were,—'tis impossible for you to guess;Mif you could,—I should blush ... as an author... - MORE What these perplexities of my uncle Toby were,—'tis impossible for you to guess;Mif you could,—I should blush ... as an author; inasmuch as I set no small store by myself upon this very account, that my reader has never yet been able to guess at any thing. And ... if I thought you was able to form the least ... conjecture to yourself, of what was to come in the next page,—I would tear it out of my book.

Laurence Sterne

writers and writing | surprises | reading

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While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally i... - MORE While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.

Marie Collins Swabey

history | science

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of f... - MORE There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain

science

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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, ... - MORE Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized accomplishment. And whoever lacks the capacity to put on blinders, so to speak, and to come up to the idea that the fate of his soul depends upon whether or not he makes the correct conjecture at this passage of this manuscript may as well stay away from science. He will never have what one may call the "personal experience" of science. Without this strange intoxication, ridiculed by every outsider; without this passion ... you have no calling for science and you should do something else. For nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

Max Weber

experts

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