There is no shame in admitting that the ultimate principle of all the wonders of the universe is unknown to us.


Les Principes de la Nature, ou de la Generation des Choses (1731), 165. Quoted in Jaques Roger, The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought, Keith R. Benson (ed.) and trans. Robert Ellrich (1997)


There is no shame in admitting that the ultimate principle of all the wonders of the universe is unknown to us.

There is no shame in admitting that the ultimate principle of all the wonders of the universe is unknown to us.

There is no shame in admitting that the ultimate principle of all the wonders of the universe is unknown to us.

There is no shame in admitting that the ultimate principle of all the wonders of the universe is unknown to us.