Camille Flammarion Quotes

#1. The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

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#2. The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe's history.

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#3. What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

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#4. If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

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#5. Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

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#6. Men ... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

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#7. Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

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#8. The supernatural does not exist.

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#9. There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

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#10. May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?

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#11. Le Verrier - without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky - had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

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#12. Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

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