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Vision

In the tart words of William Blake, the unrepentant critic of Newton and the Enlightenment, “He who sees the infinite in all things sees God.  He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only.” We see what we are predisposed to see.

History

Someone once said that all of Copernicus was in Newton and that all of Newton was in Einstein, who said, “My inner and out life is built on the labors of my fellow man, living and dead…I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.” We stand on the shoulders of the past.