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Much fruitless speculation has been spent over supposed hidden meanings in Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark. The inclination to search for these was strictly natural, though the search was destined to fail.

Henry Holiday

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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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Henry Holiday

Henry Holiday

Born: June 17, 1839
Died: April 15, 1927 (aged 87)
Bio: Henry Holiday was an English historical genre and landscape painter, stained glass designer, illustrator and sculptor. He is considered to be a member of the Pre-Raphaelite school of art.
Known for:
  1. The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
  2. Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
  3. The Lewis Carroll book
  4. The snark puzzle book
  5. The Annotated Books Set

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