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Buffon’s work created a great furore, of course. The theologians at the Sorbonne condemned him, and Buffon dutifully retracted. But he wasn’t sincere: ‘It is better to be humble than hanged.’

— Stephen Baxter Ages in Chaos (2003)

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The future, it seemed, was turning out to be one damn thing after another.

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