Henry Williams Noted

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    The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
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    You know what? Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.
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    It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
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