"Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller……" — Frederick Soddy
"Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb There's now no need for rule of thumb. Since zero bend's a dead straight line And concave bends have minus sign, The sum of squares of all four bends Is half the square of their sum."
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Frederick Soddy
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34 Quotes by Frederick Soddy
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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
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