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Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of two opposite errors: of letting your imagination soar unballasted by facts, but on the other hand, of shackling it so solidly that it loses all incentive to rise.

Percival Lowell

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Percival Lowell
Age: 61 †
Born: 1855
Born: March 13
Died: 1916
Died: November 12
Astronomer
Author
Businessperson
Mathematician
Boston
Massachusetts
Percival Lawrence Lowell
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Starting
Letting
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Learning
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Incentive
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Opposite
Precision
Imagination
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Errors
Beware
Science
Rise
Soar
Facts
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Essentials
Vital
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