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• The conviction of wisdom is the plague of man. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• Science is what happens when preconception meets verification.
• When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. -- East African Proverb
• When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers. African Proverb
• It seems to me to be a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant, and remove it.
  -- Evelyn Waugh -- when Randolph Churchill had a benign tumour removed from his lung...