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“[photography]... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way.”
“A union of literary and scientific culturesthere was not the dissociation of sensibility that was so soon to come... Davy himself was writing (and sometimes publishing) a good deal of poetry at the...”
“...read 1984 when it came out in 1949, and found its account of the memory hole peculiarly evocative and frightening, for it accorded with my own doubts about my memory. I think that reading this l...”
“And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. [] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indeci...”
“I was on the shy side at school (one school report called me diffident) and Braefield had added a special timidity, but when I had a natural wonder... I lost all my diffidence, and freely approache...”
“My mother showed me that when tin or zinc was bent it uttered a special cry. Its due to deformation of the crystal structure, she said, forgetting that I was five, and could not understand her - an...”
“I liked numbers because they were solid, invariant; they stood unmoved in a chaotic world. There was in numbers and their relation something absolute, certain, not to be questioned, beyond doubt.”
