There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and... the second is art.... Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the phil...osopher's stone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found,... Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight, Awake, the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us: we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colors, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically seal...ed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »