When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. - W. H. Auden

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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. - David Hume quotes