“I must no less commend the study of anatomy, which whosoever considers, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxal, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.”

—  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

Source: The Autobiography, P. 31

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