It may be seen, in my work, that the course which I have adopted is that followed by the natural philosopher, in order to grasp the laws that regulate the material world. By the seizure of facts, I seek to rise to an appreciation of the causes whence they spring.

— Adolphe Quetelet A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)

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