“Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.”
George Sarton (1884–1956) American historian of science
Preface.
A History of Science Vol.1 Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece (1952)
“Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.”
Sec. 94
Satyricon
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