Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.
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The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
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The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.
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The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
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Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
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