Only around the end of the nineteenth century did scientists come across a few observations that did not… — Yuval Noah Harari
Only around the end of the nineteenth century did scientists come across a few observations that did not fit... with Newton's laws, and these led to the next revolution... the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.
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