"We'll try to imitate how Galileo and Newton learned so much by studying the simplest kinds of pendulums and weights, mirrors and prisms. ... It is the same reason why so many biologists today devote more attention to tiny germs and viruses than to magnificent lions and tigers. ... In science, one can learn the most by studying what seems the least."
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Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind (1988)
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