...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a del…

John Herschel
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring. ✨ Sir John Frederick William Herschel, William Whewell, George Henry Lewes, Hermann von Helmholz, James Clerk Maxwell (1996). The Origins of Modern Philosophy of Science, 1830-1914: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy
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