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'''''[[w:Significance|Significance]]''''' (2012) ''by [[Lise Sonntag]]''.
 
(contracted; show full)nced that the particle was a sphere to within one billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimetre. Do you know what the leader of the team said at the press conference?” Baumgarten started to smile. He could see that Bach was enjoying herself tremendously. “He said, and I quote: ''To the best of our knowledge, with the experimental precision we have, it appears to be round''." (Chapter 9)
:''From a discussion about the nature of scientific research''

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"At times it must have seemed as though he were condemned to being a kind of scholarly performing monkey for the aristocracy; obliged to produce ever more startling and interesting revelations for the entertainment of his masters and to their vicarious glory." (Chapter 16)
:''Referring to the great polymath G.W. Leibniz in his later years''