Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quote

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.


Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686), trans. H. A. Hargreaves (1990)


Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never...

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never...

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never...

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never...