“When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.”

— Thomas Young (scientist)

as quoted by Horatio B. Williams, Thomas Young, The Man and Physician, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 20, 35-49 (1930).

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English polymath 1773–1829

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