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The Physics of Love

For many years, the influence of the book Principia by Isaac Newton made people see the world as an ordered, coherent place that could be fully understood through science, reason, logic and mathematics, but love cannot be defined by any of those element and Cliff explains why.

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Cliff Goldstein

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