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The fruit of demonstration is science.

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Treatise on the Knowledge of God and of One's Self (1677)

Le fruit de la démonstration est la science.

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Source: Ch. I, § xiii, p. 63
Work: Treatise on the Knowledge of God and of One's Self, 1677
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