“A genius is someone who discovers that the stone that falls and the moon that doesn't fall represent one and the same phenomenon.”

Un genio es alguien que descubre que la piedra que cae y la luna que no cae representan un solo y mismo fenómeno.
Ernesto Sábato, in On Heroes and Tombs [Sobre héroes y tumbas] (1961), Ch. X
Variant translation: A genius is someone who discovers that the falling stone and the moon that falls represent one and the same phenomenon.

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Un genio es alguien que descubre que la piedra que cae y la luna que no cae representan un solo y mismo fenómeno.

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Argentine writer, painter and physicist 1911–2011

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