Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error tha…

Henry David Thoreau
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Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1999). Material Faith: Thoreau on Science, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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