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Old 01-05-2011, 06:17 AM   #1046
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.....I see ladies' silk dresses, if those deserve to be called dresses which can neither cover their body or their shame; when wearing which, they can scarcely with a good conscience, swear that they are not naked.
..........— Lucius Annaeus Seneca (circa 4 BCE – 65 CE), Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist. On Benefits, Book VII, Section IX (circa 63 CE).

I like naked.


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.....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.
Great quote. I seem to constantly run into those who either deny or claim that there is no creativity in science.

(or insist that science is a religion based on beliefs)
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