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Science carries its legitimate pretensions further. To-day it claims the material, intellectual, and moral direction of society. Under its impulse modern civilisation marches with an increasingly rapid stride.

— Marcellin Berthelot Speech at M. Berthelot's Scientific Jubilee (1901)

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