"The scientific method I was closest to was the Linnaean: discover, collect, examine."

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“I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical.”

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“My total experience of school was mixed, with more darkness than light. Just as my image of society has become.”

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"Science itself had been crowded so close to the edge of the abyss that its attempts to escape were as metaphysical as the leap."

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Politics1838–1918

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"That devastating omniscience! That noxious, horn-spectacled refinement! And the money that such refinement means! For after all, what is there behind it, except money? Money for the right kind of educ…"

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