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Nature always uses the simplest means to accomplish its effects.

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In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the particular shape of such and such an animal, but the general procedures of nature in the animal's production and preservation.

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To endeavor at discovering the connections that subsist in nature, is no way inconsistent with prudence; but it is downright folly to push these researches too far; as it is the lot only of superior Beings to see the dependence of events, from one end to the other, of the chain which supports them.

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Kepler... thought it but reasonable, that as the sea has its whales and monsters, the air should have them likewise. These monsters are Comets...

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Pierre Louis Maupertuis

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Born: July 17, 1698
Died: July 27, 1759 (aged 61)
Bio: Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great.

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