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" Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. "
Arthur Conan Doyle
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" A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. "
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