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The Prism and the Pendulum: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science

by Robert P. Crease

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Dan’s Quotes

“...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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“Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.”
― Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

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“The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

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“One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.”
― Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

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“No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.”
― Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

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