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“My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.”

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My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside. Citation: Letter to Alexander the Great as quoted by William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), Ch. 2, Sect. 2 Listed on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotle (CC BY-SA)

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