Martin Henry Fischer Quote

Search for facts which reach but to the ankle of this colossus in scientific interest and philosophical consequences, and you will find but pigmies crawling at the foot of a giant!


Translated by John Ellard Gore, Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens, Book II, Chapter VI (p. 163)


Search for facts which reach but to the ankle of this colossus in scientific interest and philosophical consequences, and you will find but pigmies...

Search for facts which reach but to the ankle of this colossus in scientific interest and philosophical consequences, and you will find but pigmies...

Search for facts which reach but to the ankle of this colossus in scientific interest and philosophical consequences, and you will find but pigmies...

Search for facts which reach but to the ankle of this colossus in scientific interest and philosophical consequences, and you will find but pigmies...