Neither Buffon's reputation, nor the glow of his style, nor the dazzling ingenuity and grandeur of his conceptions--all of them so well calculated, at one-and-twenty, to throw even a vigilant intelligence off its guard--could divert Turgot from the prime scientific duty of confronting a theory with facts.
This quote illustrates Turgot's commitment to scientific rigor, emphasizing the need to confront theories with empirical evidence.
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