It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Facts which at first seem improbable will even on scant explanation drop the cloak which has hidden

Facts which at first seem improbable will even on scant explanation drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

The sun with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it can still ripen a bunch of g

The sun with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them discover it within themselves.

We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them discover it within themselves.

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