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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#act #borrow #borrowing #examine #him

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#ignorance #ignorant #presume #understand #understanding

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aphorism #best #consists #exclusively #greatest

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

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I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

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Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

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I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#did #doing #great #great time #had

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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