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Modern Science and Materialism
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Consequently, the first thing to be done in any search after philosophic principles is to travel over the special sciences with a view to extracting from them such information as is relevant to our purpose.
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No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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April 6, 1752
Died:
December 1, 1830
(aged 78)
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