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Nicolás Steno,[1]​ nacido Niels Steensen,[2]​ Nicolaus Steno en latín[3]​ , fue un polímata, médico, y anatomista danés del siglo XVII, considerado el padre de la geología. Tras convertirse al catolicismo, murió como obispo misionero.

El 23 de octubre de 1988, después de un proceso de 50 años, fue declarado beato por la Iglesia católica en una ceremonia celebrada por el papa Juan Pablo II ante 20 000 devotos en la basílica de San Pedro.[4]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 11. enero 1638 – 5. diciembre 1686
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Nicolás Steno: Frases en inglés

“Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don't.”

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quoted by Addison Anderson in a TED-Ed lesson. https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-most-groundbreaking-scientist-you-ve-never-heard-of-addison-anderson

“There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created.”

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quoted in Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries by S. Finger, 2000

“We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance…We admire…the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.”

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quoted in Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries by S. Finger (Introduction; A Voyage Across time) (2000)

“In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them.”

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The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno's Dissertation Concerning a Solid https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/54340#/summary : (Page 217)

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