Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Hugo , Victor (1907), Victor Hugo's intellectual autobiography, Retrieved on 2012-06-05
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    05 JUN 2012

     Science is Strange

    Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
    Folksonomies: wonder otherness
    Folksonomies: wonder otherness
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    Working from wonder to wonder.

    05 JUN 2012

     There is No Supernatural

    There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostr...
    Folksonomies: nature
    Folksonomies: nature
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    All is nature.

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