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The scientists, in playing their game with Nature, are meeting an opponent on her own ground, who has not only made the rules of the game to suit herself, but may have even queered the pitch or cast a spell over the visiting team.

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Nature is a conjurer for supermen. Generations of scientists have attempted to penetrate her secrets. Bit by bit the disguise is being torn away, but each new discovery seems only to open out fresh avenues demanding further exploration. Nature is a true woman, who will have the last word.

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A reception was held and the science departments were on view. A young lady, entering the physical laboratory and seeing an inverted image of herself in a large concave mirror, naively remarked to her companion: "They have hung that looking glass upside down."

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Relativity without mathematics may be compared with "Painless Dentistry," or "Skiing without Falling," or "Reading without Tears."

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C. V. Durell

C. V. Durell

Born: June 6, 1882
Died: December 10, 1968 (aged 86)
Bio: Clement Vavasor Durell was an English schoolmaster who wrote mathematical textbooks.
Known for:
  1. Readable relativity (1926)
  2. Advanced Algebra (1932)
  3. Advanced Trigonometry (1930)

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