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No Limit to Research


"There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown."

William Cecil Dampier
in A History of Science and Its Relations with Philosophy and Religion,
4th Ed., Cambridge University Press, 1961, p. 500

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