We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
-- Asa Gray
   
Asa Gray   Name:
Asa Gray
Type:
Scientist
Nationality:
American
Birth:
November 18, 1810
Death:
January 30, 1888
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