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Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

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This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing.

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If the excrement of an elephant should be smeared on skin in which lice appear and left until it dries upon the skin, the lice will not remain on it but will depart immediately. If the fat of an elephant is smeared with it, it is said to cure the pain of one who suffers a headache; it is even said that if an ounce of elephant bone is drunk with ten ounces of wild mountain mint from something which a leper first touched, it does the most for a headache.

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Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

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We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.

Albertus Magnus

Albertus Magnus

Albertus Magnus

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Born: 1206

Died: November 15, 1280 (aged 74)

Bio: Albertus Magnus, O.P., also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, is a Catholic saint. He was a German Dominican friar and a Catholic bishop.

Known for:

De mineralibus
On union with God

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