"A greater gain to the world...than all the growth of scientific knowledge is the growth of the scientific spirit, with its courage and serenity, its disciplined conscience, its intellectual morality, its habitual response to any disclosure of the truth."
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Epigraph in W. T. Sedgwick and H. W. Tyler, A Short History of Science (New York: Macmillan, 1917) p. vi
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Francis Greenwood Peabody
Francis Greenwood Peabody (December 4, 1847 – December 28, 1936) was an American Unitarian minister and theology professor at Harvard University.
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