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Posted on July 4, 2018July 5, 2018

“A sort of oriental yearning for Nirvana” – Miklós Bánffy on doomed Hungarian geniuses

There is a famous anecdote told about Enrico Fermi, when he asked why there was as of yet no evidence of intelligent life from other planets despite the statistical likelihood…

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