Biology Quote by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

““The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go about studying the wonders of creation without ever having a sense of wonder in the religious sense of that term.””

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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