“There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.”

—  Denis Diderot

As quoted in Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe : The Key to a Whole New World of Enlightenment and Enrichment (2006) by Matthew M Radmanesh, p. 91

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French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713–1784

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