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Sentence #5248497

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Adelpa Adelpa 3 Julai 2016 3 Julai 2016 4:40:58 PG UTC flag Report link Permalink

quote by Isaac Newton

CK CK 3 Julai 2016 3 Julai 2016 5:47:38 PG UTC flag Report link Permalink

I suspect that modern writers would not splice these 2 sentences together with a comma.

However, on the Web, this version is often found. That being said, lots of things on the Web are copy and pasted from elsewhere. I wonder how Isaac Newton originally wrote this.

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #1333513Was wir wissen, ist ein Tropfen, was wir nicht wissen, ein Ozean..

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

added by Adelpa, 3 Julai 2016

What we know is a drop. What we don't know is an ocean.

edited by Adelpa, 3 Julai 2016