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Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.
Proposition IX
Thomas Young
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I value one experiment higher than a thousand opinions born of the imagination.
Mikhail Lomonosov
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However profoundly we may penetrate the depths of space, there still remain innumerable systems, compared with which, those which seem so mighty to us must dwindle into insignificance, or even become invisible..
Mary Somerville
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