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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to ch

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. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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