To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.
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Nationality: Australian Type: Scientist Born: January 29, 1850 Death: July 14, 1915 |
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.