"But I should be very sorry if an……" — James Clerk Maxwell
"But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis... The rate of change of scientific hypothesis is naturally much more rapid than that of Biblical interpretations, so that if an interpretation is founded on such an hypothesis, it may help to keep the hypothesis above ground long after it ought to be buried and forgotten."
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James Clerk Maxwell
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50 Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell
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