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G C Lichtenberg: Astronomy is perhaps...

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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

Source: Aphorisms, Notebook C, aph. 23 (written 1765-99; tr. by R. J. Hollingdale, 1990)
-- G C Lichtenberg, (Jul 1 1742-1799), German physicist, writer; He is best known for his satirical wit ridiculing metaphysical and romantic excesses.


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