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My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles. . . . That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits.

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John Burnham Schwartz

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.

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It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

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