Immanuel Kant: it is absurd … to hope that maybe another Newton may some day arise, to make intelligible to us even the genesis of but

it is absurd … to hope that maybe another Newton may some day arise, to make int — Immanuel Kant

it is absurd … to hope that maybe another Newton may some day arise, to make intelligible to us even the genesis of but a blade of grass ("Dialectic of Teleological Judgment" §75)

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