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We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because ‘two’ is ‘one and one’. We forget that we have still to make a study of ‘and’.

— Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World, 1928

January 26, 2026January 25, 2026 | Quotations

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