The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.

John Tyndall
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Edward Charles Pickering, discoverer of the Neptune satellite, said, “The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.”

Source: Fragments Of Science: A Series Of Detached Essays, Addresses, And Reviews. Volume 2

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