Edgar Quinet (17 February 1803–27 March 1875) was a French historian and intellectual.
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“Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.”
—Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)
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“Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.”
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