Warning: Undefined array key "visitor_referer_type" in /var/www/vhosts/wordinf.com/core/app/libraries/Core.php on line 98
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Astronomy is perhaps the...
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. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

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.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Related topics

astronomy best chance human learn least magnitude man perhaps science small understanding

Related quotes

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. View quote
James Frazer
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.