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“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“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

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