Georg Christoph LichtenbergWhere the frontier of science once was is now the centre.
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Where the frontier of science once was is now the center. The center is used as an analogy to describe the place that something begins, or where it "begins" (the center of a circle, for example). The idea is that the sciences research and technology has now reached such a level that it has become the "center" of the world.
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