ernest (Ellen)
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“It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”
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“Dear brother from another time, today some stars gave in to the black around them & i knew it was you.”
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“Every thing must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindoos give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos”
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“Those who view mathematical science, not merely as a vast body of abstract and immutable truths, whose intrinsic beauty, symmetry and logical completeness, when regarded in their connexion together as a whole, entitle them to a prominent place in the interest of all profound and logical minds, but as possessing a yet deeper interest for the human race, when it is remembered that this science constitutes the language through which alone we can adequately express the great facts of the natural world, and those unceasing changes of mutual relationship which, visibly or invisibly, consciously or unconsciously to our immediate physical perceptions, are interminably going on in the agencies of the creation we live amidst...”
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“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
― The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
― The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
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