The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible … - Jacques Barzun

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All I can do is just do what I can do and not be hampered by knowing that some people won't like it.

Jacques Barzun

The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.

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Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

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Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

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Regarding the idea of race,. . no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.

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To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

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To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

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