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Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories.

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz New York Times interview (1911)

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In this country all a man need to do is to attain a little eminence and immediately he begins to talk.

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In a mathematical sense, space is manifoldness, or combination of numbers. Physical space is known as the 3-dimension system. There is the 4-dimension system, there is the 10-dimension system.

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We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.

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