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Are almost invariably gratuitous and unproved. Were they always put…

Quote byRobert Chambers · 1802–1871

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859), p. 14.

English (original)

are almost invariably gratuitous and unproved. Were they always put to the test of experiment, how many might prove like meteorites and vaccination?

— Robert Chambers

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