The history of science familiarizes us with the ideas of evolution and the continuous transformation of human things... It shows us that if the accomplishments of mankind as a whole are grand, the contributions of each is small.

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Source: (ca. 1917) as quoted by William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler, A Short History of Science (1917)
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