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CLASSICS OF MODERN SCIENCE

THERE is no grander nor more intellectually elevating spectacle than that of the utterances of the fundamental investigators in their gigantic power. Possessed as yet of no methods—for these were first created by their labors and are only rendered comprehensible to us by their performances—they grapple with and subjugate the object of their inquiry and imprint upon it the forms of conceptual thought.

—ERNST MACH