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Counting correctly is very difficult, because, so to put it, it requires from the mind a simultaneous hold upon the past, present, and future. Counting, on the other hand, done carefully is the only region of knowledge, even of mathematics, in which we can be perfectly sure we are not talking nonsense.
Ralph Allan Sampson
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Ralph Allan Sampson
Born:
June 25, 1866
Died:
November 7, 1939
(aged 73)
Bio:
Prof Ralph Allan Sampson FRS FRSE LLD was an British astronomer.
Known for:
The sun (1914)
Science and Reality (1928)
On Gravitation and Relativity (1920)
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