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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
Approximate author period: c. 1935 AD · modern
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- Rachel Carson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1935 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Rachel Carson: life dates 1907 to 1964. Wikidata Q100948, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100948 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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