

“What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.”
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“There's so much to think about here in the world, one life is not enough for it all.”
― Leaf-Huts and Snow-Houses
― Leaf-Huts and Snow-Houses

“Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone—in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.”
― Fiction and the Figures of Life
― Fiction and the Figures of Life

“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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