Date: 1918
"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it."
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Date: 1918
"Mr. Chesterton's brain swarms with ideas; I see no evidence that it thinks."
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Date: 1922
"When the two gases previously mentioned are mixed in the presence of a filament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected...
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Date: 1922
"The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together."
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