"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."

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Source : Thomas Reid, Ronald E. Beanblossom, Keith Lehrer (1983). “Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays”, p.129, Hackett Publishing

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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