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With respect to the cohesion and capillary action of liquids, I have had the good fortune to anticipate Mr. Laplace in his late researches, and I have endeavoured to show, that my assumptions are more universally applicable to the facts, than those which that justly celebrated mathematician has employed.

— Thomas Young A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)

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When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

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With respect to the mathematical part of optics, the curvature of the images, formed by lenses and mirrors, has been correctly investigated, and the inaccuracy of some former estimations has been demonstrated.

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