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— Theophrastus"Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding."
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That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.
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In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.
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