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SOCRATES: Surely you’re following, Theaetetus; it’s my impression at any rate that you’re not inexperienced in things of this sort.THEAETETUS: Yes indeed, by the gods, Socrates, I wonder exceedingly as to why in the world these things are, and sometimes in looking at them I truly get dizzy.SOCRATES: The reason is, my dear, that, apparently, Theodorus’ guess about your nature is not a bad one, for this experience is very much a philosopher’s, that of wondering. For nothing else is the beginning of philosophy than this, and, seemingly, whoever’s genealogy it was, that Iris was the offspring of Thaumas , it’s not a bad one.—Plato, Theaetetus