Walter M. Fitch Quotes

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

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• One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

  

  Walter M. Fitch
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