My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.

— George Sarton A History of Science Vol.1 Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece (1952)

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