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The results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize…
Quote byJames Clerk Maxwell · 1831–1879
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882), Draft of a reply to an invitation to join the Victoria Institute (1875), in Ch. 12 : Cambridge 1871 To 1879, p. 404.
English (original)
the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.
— James Clerk Maxwell
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