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FROM the earliest times scientific ideas, even when crudely conceived, have been of immeasurable importance, not only for man's material advancement and control over Nature, but also in modifying and expanding hisphilosophic and religious outlook. In the effort to obtain a better understanding of his place in the cosmos, he is compelled to proceed largelyby considerations of analogy based upon supposed or actual fact. So he turns more and more toward the ever-widening vistas suggested by science in its continual discoveries of new truth.
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Birkhoff, G. Intuition, Reason and Faith in Science*. Nature 143, 60–67 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143060a0
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