Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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