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“We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.”

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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

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