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Edwin Abbott Abbott
(20 Dec 1838 - 12 Oct 1926)
English schoolmaster and theologian whose famous book, Flatland, was a satire on Victorian society. He explored the premise that exceptional events which seem contrary to the laws of nature, may actually result from interaction with an unperceived higher dimension, just as a square in two-dimensional world would have difficulty upon understanding a visit from a three-dimensional sphere.
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Science Quotes by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1 quote)
Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.
— Edwin Abbott Abbott
Flatland (1899), 154.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
