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+\begin{dquote}
+ A hundred years ago, Auguste Comte, … a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to
+ visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing
+ that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. %
+ And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at
+ the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: ``Hydrogen!'' %
+ Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made,
+ that we'll never know what stars are made of. %
+
+ \dsignature{Michio Kaku}
+\end{dquote}
+
+\clearpage
+
In this chapter I lay out the foundations of spectroscopy.
\section{Light}
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