As I grew older my lectures became simpler; I tried to say fewer things and to say them better, with more humanity. This book continues in a different way the same evolution, but it is not yet as simple as I would have liked to have made it.

— George Sarton A History of Science Vol.1 Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece (1952)

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