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I was like some two-dimensional being who might stand at the singular…
Quote byWilliam Crookes · 1832–1919
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1898).
English (original)
I was like some two-dimensional being who might stand at the singular point of a Riemann's surface, and thus find himself in infinitesimal and inexplicable contact with a plane of existence not his own.
— William Crookes
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