In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.

James Henry Breasted

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You must live a very free life."

"Me?" she laughed. "I am not who swoops out of the sky to rain fire on pirates!"

"Yeah, but before this I never did much. I mean I did a lot, but...I lived in a room at a university, and my whole world was in that little room. There was this world inside my head."

De la Fitte studied his head as if she could see through his skull to a little globe inside it somewhere.

Sam Starbuck

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