![[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn ... Those are the natural scientific men; and they are the only men that have any real success in scientific research.](/assets/img/quote-photos/for-men-to-whom-nothing-seems-great-but-reason-nature-is-a-cosmos-so-a.jpg)
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