"Ἅπαντα τὰ ζητούμεν᾽ ἐξευρίσκεται, ἂν μὴ προαποστῇς μηδὲ τὸν πόνον φύγῃς· ὅπου γὰρ εὑρήκασιν ἄνθρωποί τινες μέρος τι τῶν θείων τοσοῦτο τῷ τόπῳ ἀπέχοντες, ἄστρων ἐπιτολάς, δύσεις, τροπάς, ἔκλειψιν ἡλίου, τί τῶν κοινῶν κάτω καὶ συγγενικῶν δύναιτ᾽ ἂν ἄνθρωπον φυγεῖν."
— Alexis

January 1, 1970

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Discovery attends on every quest, Except for renegades who shirk the toil. Now certain men have pushed discovery Into the sphere of heaven. Some part they know,— How planets rise and set and wheel about, And of the sun’s eclipse. If men have probed Worlds far remote, can problems of this earth, This common home to which we’re born, defy them? — Fragment of the lost comedy Achaiis, quoted by Stobaeus, Florilegium, 29, 33. Translated by as "The Confident Scientist" in The Oxford Book of Greek Vers