"The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter."

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Source : "Psychologist at large: An autobiography and selected essays". Book by Edwin Boring, p. 3, 1961.

Edwin Boring

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“Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.”

Source : "John Oliver Hates April Fools' Day, Says It's for Sociopaths". www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 30, 2015.
“When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?”
“This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about.”
“And the look on her face as she opened the door Was like an old joke told by a friend. It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile And I watched the corners start to bend.”
“They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.”

Source : Kathleen Winsor (2000). “Forever Amber”, p.44, Chicago Review Press
“I was not sorry when my brother died”

Source : "Nervous Conditions". Book by Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1988.
“God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.”
“I know I'm not a bully and everybody has their opinions and that's fine with me.”

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