Bad Quarto Theory

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    Conventionalities are at length as bad as impurities. Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or rather rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth.
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    The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
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