The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

Louis Agassiz
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The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.
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Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.
The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal. ✨ Louis Agassiz (1873). Geological Sketches, p.234
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