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“I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand— … While I weep—while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?”
― The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
― The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
“Some researchers worried that the institute was more concerned with publicizing science rather than doing it; according to Bache, Americans “have half a hundred persons engaged in diffusing science for one who is occupied by research.”
― The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
― The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
“Locke’s “Discoveries in the Moon” suggested that both scientists and hoaxers drew from the same tool kit to persuade their audiences and forge conviction. Truth and belief were, at least in part, questions of style. They were effects achieved by a controlled unfolding of information, the language of facts and observation, vivid imagery, a wide distribution network, favorable publicity, word of mouth, good timing, and good luck.”
― The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
― The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
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