"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order"
This quote is written / told by Asa Gray between November 18, 1810 and January 30, 1888. He/she was a famous Scientist from USA.
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