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• Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book i, (1605.)...
• There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pa
  which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him....
• That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call tragedy.
  .. The miserable fraction of Science which our United Mankind, in a wide universe of Nescience, has acquired, why is not this, with all diligence, imparted to all?...
• A new taste had been acquired and a new appetite began to grow.
  The time had long since arrived to crush the technical intelligentsia, which had come to regard itself as too irreplaceable and had not gotten used to catching instructions on the wing....
• Addiction - The process by which one becomes a dick.
• SERENDIPITY: The process by which human knowledge is advanced.