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2006-04-13

Like father, like son

"But you've got it backward," said Louisa. "I'm not talking about details. I'm talking about the big picture, the historical context of discovery, the nature of creativity, the changing cultural patterns of the way human beings see..."

So she'd get her master's degree in the history of science, Sandy mused. She'd finish up her little project and apply for medical school the year after. Robert Hooke was fine; he was eccentric; eccentricity was all the rage in med school applications. English majors, musicians, writers. Sandy had served his time on the committees. Harvard loved that kind of thing. She would be a doctor in the end. He knew it. Lousia was no soft-spoken library researcher. No math-fearing patsy. She was his son [67].

Goodman, Allegra. Intuition. Dial Press, 2006. ISBN 0385336128.

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