Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop; To our infirmity. (William Wordsworth)

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop; To our infirmity.

William Wordsworth

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