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Modern science constitutes a method for understanding and modifying the world but has no inherent direction, whereas modern religion describes a messianic world view but lacks a useful method to bring about this state of affairs.
Frederick Grinnell
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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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Frederick Grinnell
Born:
1836
Died:
1905
(aged 69)
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Frederick Grinnell was a pioneer in fire safety and was the creator of the first practical automatic fire sprinkler.
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