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• What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple
• How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws… — Steven Weinberg
• Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly
• The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were… — Tom Standage
• Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic… — Richard Courant
• And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or… — Unknown Author
• The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist… — Jacob Burckhardt
• A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a… — Richard Saul Wurman
• It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a… — I. Bernard Cohen
• The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare
• Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early… — John Hamill

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