Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
Source: Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.”
No. 256 (24 December 1711)
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The Spectator (1711–1714)
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