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Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: 'They [those who believe that 'there are men on the other side of the earth'] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water.' Saint Augustine of Hippo		Tuesday Jun 02, 2026
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Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. Maria Goeppert-Mayer

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	Maria Goeppert-Mayer
	Maria Goeppert-Mayer (June 28, 1906 - February 20, 1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist. In 1963 she received the Nobel Prize in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus, becoming only the second women to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics (the other being Marie Curie). Read More

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Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.