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To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Reality, Trying, Structure
To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.