.....Wildest dreams are the necessary first steps toward scientific investigation.
..........— Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist. Lowell Lectures on the History of Science, "Ancient Science" (1892), from Values in a Universe of Chance: Selected Writings of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), 1st ed. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Philip P. Wiener. Page 233.
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