The botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue decays and so forth is equally right with the child who stands under the tree and says the apple fell because he wanted to eat it and prayed for it.


Translated by Leo Wiener, War and Peace, Book 9, Chapter I (p. 8), J.M. Dent & Co. 1904

Leo Tolstoy Quotes

The botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue decays and so forth is equally right with the child who stands under the tree ...

The botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue decays and so forth is equally right with the child who stands under the tree ...

The botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue decays and so forth is equally right with the child who stands under the tree ...

The botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue decays and so forth is equally right with the child who stands under the tree ...