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" Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. "

Leonardo da Vinci

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" I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. "

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