282 ◆NOTES
- Robert J. Sternberg, The Psychologist’s Companion: A Guide to
Scientific Writing for Students and Researchers (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press and British Psychological Society,
1988), p. 58. - The Sun’s headline synopsis of the quiet revolution in
Czechoslovakia was: ‘Commies Czech Out’. - Michelangelo quoted in A. D. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its
Spirits, Conditions and Methods(Dublin: Mercier Press, 1978), trans-
lated by Mary Ryan, p. 222. - Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe, quoted in R. Andrews, The Routledge
Dictionary of Quotations(London: Routledge, 1987), p. 292. The
same quotation from Faust is also rendered as: ‘When ideas fail,
words come in very handy’, in L. D. Eigen and J. P. Siegel, Dictionary
of Political Quotations(London: Robert Hale, 1994), p. 466. - Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979), translated by Alan Sheridan.
Chapter 5 Writing clearly: style and
referencing issues
- Robert Sternberg, The Psychologist’s Companion: A Guide to
Scientific Writing for Students and Researchers (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press and British Psychological Society,
1988), p. 3. - Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy(London: Penguin,
2000), pp. 158–9. - Howard S. Becker, Writing for Social Scientists(Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1986), p. 81. - Quoted in R. Andrews, The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations
(London: Routledge, 1987), p. 250. - Quoted in The Observer, More Sayings of the Week(London: The
Observer, 1983), p. 60. - Blaise Pascal, Pensées (London: Dent, 1932), p. 45, Thought
number 145. - Pascal, Pensées, p. 7, Thought number 23.
- Pascal, Pensées, p. 45, Thought number 145.
- Quoted by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier in his Preface to The Elements
of Chemistry(1789), reprinted in E. Blair Bolles (ed.), Galileo’s
Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science Writing(London:
Abacus, 2000), pp. 379–88, quote on p. 380. - G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man (London: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1925), p. 161.