Pedantry

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Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture.

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  • Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • Pedantry is a well-recognized compound, two thirds sound learning and one third harmless vanity Sometimes on the street you see a man whom you take for an old acquaintance. —  By the Christmas Fire
  • Pedantry is the plague of German art, and the greatest men have not escaped it. —  Musicians of To-Day
  • Valiant Wisdom tilling and draining; escorted by owl-eyed Pedantry, by owlish and vulturish and many other forms of Folly;--the valiant husbandman assiduously tilling; the blind greedy enemy too assiduously sowing tares! —  Past and Present
  • Assiduous Pedantry, and its rubbish- heaps called 'History.' —  Past and Present
 

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