Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quote

These foreign planets, with their tails and their beards, have a terrible menacing countenance, it may be they are sent to affront us...


Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds - The Fifth Evening (p. 173), Printed for Peter Wilson. Dublin, Ireland. 1761


These foreign planets, with their tails and their beards, have a terrible menacing countenance, it may be they are sent to affront us...

These foreign planets, with their tails and their beards, have a terrible menacing countenance, it may be they are sent to affront us...

These foreign planets, with their tails and their beards, have a terrible menacing countenance, it may be they are sent to affront us...

These foreign planets, with their tails and their beards, have a terrible menacing countenance, it may be they are sent to affront us...