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“Few years ago the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved goldfish bowls. The measure’s sponsor explained the measure in part by saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality.”
— Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist and author, Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design, Random House, 2010. (Illustration: M. C. Escher, Hand with Reflecting Sphere (1935)
See also: Council bans goldfish bowls, ABC News, July 24, 2004.
See also: Council bans goldfish bowls, ABC News, July 24, 2004.
