intercommunication of scientific results will have taken place from star to star, the enthusiasm of knowledge may rise to such a springtide.
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Doubt of doubt.—"What a splendid pillow doubt offers to a well-constructed head." This saying of Montaigne always incensed Pascal, for nobody ever so much yearned for a good pillow as he did. What really was amiss?
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Words block our way.—Wherever primitive man put up a word, lie believed that he had made a discovery.How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing that lie had solvel it, he had created an obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words, and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.
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"Knor thyself" is the essence of all science.—-Man will never know himself before he has gained a final knowledge of all things. For the things are only the limitations of man.
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The new fundamental feeling: our ultimate transitoriness.—Formerly people tried to arrive at the cons
