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Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain to communicate by constructing it on a small [scale], no matter how carefully. Already the regularity of its motion promises the most conclusive results. One collects numbers that, compared with the predictions of theory, permit one to appreciate how far the true pendulum approximates or differs from the abstract system called 'the simple pendulum'.
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The pendulum had swung too far, as always, and now was swinging back, and the horror of intolerance had been loosed upon the land.
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― Time Is the Simplest Thing
― Time Is the Simplest Thing
