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1 " We tend to quarrel most bitterly with those who most nearly resemble ourselves. "
― Timothy Ferris , Coming of Age in the Milky Way
2 " We don't see things in themselves, but only aspects of things. "
3 " By the time of Archimedes death the world center of intellectual life already had shifted from Athens to Alexandria. . . . Here Ptolemy I . . . established . . . a vast library and museum where scientists and scholars could carry on their studies. "
4 " Newton . . . viewed poetry as a kind of ingenious nonsense. "
5 " Space, Mach argued, is not a thing but an expression of relationships among events. "
