John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

It is the tendency of the study of science to make us patient, humble and attentive to the smallest things. Is not this part of religion?

John Lancaster Spalding

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• It is the tendency of the study of science to make us patient, humble and attentive to the smallest things. Is not this part of religion?

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Science
  • Study
  • Humble