“Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.”

No. 4
On the Interpretation of Nature (1753)

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French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713–1784

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