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"ince causes are four in number, to know them all is the business of the natural philosopher, who also referring to the cause why a thing is to all of them, viz. to matter, form, that which moves, and …"
— Aristotle
Philosophy-384–-322
"We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year."
— Edwin H. Land
Science1909–1991
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