How many stars have telescopes revealed to us which did not exist for … — Pensées
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How many stars have telescopes revealed to us which did not exist for our philosophers of old! We freely attack Holy Scripture on the great number of stars, saying, "There are only one thousand and twenty-eight,[103] we know it." There is grass on the earth, we see it--from the moon we would not see it--and on the grass are leaves, and in these leaves are small animals; but after that no more.--O presumptuous man!--The compounds are composed of elements, and the elements not.--O presumptuous man! Here is a fine reflection.--We must not say that there is anything which we do not see.--We must then talk like others, but not think like them.
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