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Henri Poincaré, one of the father's of non-Euclidean geometry, believed that the existence of non-Euclidean geometry, dealing with the non-flat surfaces of hyperbolic and elliptical curvatures, proved that Euclidean geometry, the long standing geometry of flat surfaces, was not a universal truth, but rather one outcome of using one particular set of game rules.

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This was a long delay.

And the man said, "He's come down a long way, hasn't he?" (Laughter) (Applause) There's been kind of a series of epiphanies.

The history of attempts to tinker with the function of the nervous system is long and illustrious.

And we've come a long way since Galvani's and Susana's first successes in making animals twitch or jump.

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