Ludwig Büchner Quote

Every schoolboy knows that the sky is not a glass shade covering the earth, but that, in contemplating it, we behold an immense space interrupted by infinitely distant and scattered groups of worlds.


Force and Matter, Chapter VIII (p. 51), Trubner & Co. 1864


Every schoolboy knows that the sky is not a glass shade covering the earth, but that, in contemplating it, we behold an immense space interrupted by...

Every schoolboy knows that the sky is not a glass shade covering the earth, but that, in contemplating it, we behold an immense space interrupted by...

Every schoolboy knows that the sky is not a glass shade covering the earth, but that, in contemplating it, we behold an immense space interrupted by...

Every schoolboy knows that the sky is not a glass shade covering the earth, but that, in contemplating it, we behold an immense space interrupted by...