I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. (Wilfred Owen)

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

Wilfred Owen

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