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still he united the genius of a true geologist with the keen eye of the mineralogist.
bibliomania;
Where did truth stop? Where did error begin? I was all adrift among a thousand contradictory hypotheses, but I could not lay hold of one.
A debate on physical realism.
dead lump of inert matter.
nor its spire composed of the twisted tails of four bronze dragons,
“Et quacumque viam dedent fortuna sequamur.” “Therever fortune clears a way, Thither our ready footsteps stray.”
“No more; that is sufficient. When science has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace.”
sylphs,
“Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors that it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.”
Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
