“We never escape our past. It is mirrored in our present. It repeats itself in our future.”
Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer
Marius Melville in Ch. 17
Cassidy (1986)
“It is delightful in itself when we are able to interpret features of the present as signs confirming our understanding of the past.”
Source: Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (1987), Ch.11 Explosions and Fluourescence (or, Entropy's Revenge)
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