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In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.

David Daiches

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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David Daiches

David Daiches

Born: September 2, 1912
Died: July 15, 2005 (aged 92)
Bio: David Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture.
Known for:
  1. A Critical History of English Literature (1979)
  2. Critical approaches to literature (1956)
  3. Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood (1956)
  4. God and the poets (1984)
  5. Let's Collect Scotch Whisky (1981)

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