Modern Set Theory

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“The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa—slightly off balance.”
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“And set off briskly for so slow a thing,
Still going every which way in the joints, though,
So that it looked like lightning or a scribble.”
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“The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.”
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