Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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