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How we laugh now at those daft Victorians. They thought they knew everything. To them, the Universe was a small and well-ordered sort of place, consisting of a few million stars. The planets were held aloft by Newton’s well-ordered apron strings, and the whole cosmos ticked away like a Swiss clock.
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Hanlon, M. (2007). Introduction. In: 10 Questions Science Can’t Answer (Yet). Macmillan Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-51091-4_1
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