We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Science is a differential equation.
Religion is a boundary condition.
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