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> # Formulae are the anaethetics of thought, not its stimulants.

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## More from Percival Lowell

1. > The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

[Permalink to quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/Percival-Lowell/2/ "Permalink to quote 2")
2. > That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

[Permalink to quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/Percival-Lowell/4/ "Permalink to quote 4")
3. > Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not unakin to what we know on Earth as life?

[Permalink to quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/Percival-Lowell/1/ "Permalink to quote 1")

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