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• Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course.… — Israel Gelfand
• I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as… — Thucydides
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• In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in… — Henry A. Kissinger
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