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Estabelecer padrões

“As realizações do homem [em estabelecer normas, ou padrões] . . . são insignificantes em comparação com as normas existentes na natureza. As constelações, as órbitas dos planetas, as imutáveis propriedades normais de condutividade, ductilidade, elasticidade, resistência, permeabilidade, refratividade, força ou viscosidade dos materiais da natureza, . . . ou a estrutura das células, são uns poucos exemplos da espantosa padronização na natureza.”

Encyclopædia Britannica, 1959, Vol. 21, pp. 306, 307


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