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stink and have a sense of humour." | |
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Found in the topic Classic.
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| "Philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz speculated on the
possibility of "intermediate species" over a century before the
publication of Darwin"s theory: "All advances by degrees in Nature, and
nothing by leaps, and this law as applied to each, is part of my doctrine
of Continuity. Although there may exist in some other world species
intermediate between Man and the Apes, Nature has thought it best to
remove them from us, in order to establish our superiority beyond
question. I speak of intermediate species, and by no means limit myself to
those leading to Man. I strongly approve of the research for analogies;
plants, insects, and Comparative Anatomy will increase these analogies,
especially when we are able to take advantage of the microscope more than
at present."" | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The imaginary number is a fine and wonderful recourse of the divine
spirit, almost an amphibian between being and not being." | |
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Found in the topic Number.
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| "He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the
achievements of the foremost men of later times." | |
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Found in the topic Ancestors.
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| "Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting
without being aware that it is counting." | |
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Found in the topic Music.
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