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An excerpt from a book I am reading - "A Force of Nature- The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford"
"The progress of science of [is] like the progress of man going through a swamp, with islands of firm earth in between. The advances would be very slow from week to week, but at the end of a year it would be great, and at the end of ten years, enormous..."
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Some old ones Reposted...8/18/13 - A Classification of PI's - find yours' in the list!
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