Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Off oure language he was the lodesterre.”
Prologue, line 252.
Of Chaucer.
The Fall of Princes
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Henri Poincaré book Science and Hypothesis
Source: Science and Hypothesis (1901), Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
Context: It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even if we wished to do so, it could not be done. Every man has his own conception of the world, and this he cannot so easily lay aside. We must, for example, use language, and our language is necessarily steeped in preconceived ideas.
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Adam Gopnik book Paris to the Moon
Source: Paris to the Moon