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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and les

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle

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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. – Thomas Carlyle

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