Special Scientific Interest

Famous quotes containing the words special, scientific and/or interest:

    A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
    Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)

    A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
    Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    Take it all around, I was feeling ruther comfortable, on accounts of taking all this trouble for that gang, for not many would a done it. I wished the widow knowed about it. I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)