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“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.” Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
“Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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