My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
Most of us have collections of sayings we live by.... Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.
I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.
On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.
Borrowers of books -- those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us. Our debt will have been paid in full by the only perfect pure person who ever lived.
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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