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Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world.

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May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?

Eye, Science, Warrior, Plains, Doubt
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Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

Creation, Existence, Men, Reality, Vanity

If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.

Farmers, Fields, Happiness, Independent, Mean, Teacher

The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history.

Appears, Duration, Earth, Immutable, Phrases, Universes

That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a few acres; its mountains and craters have been measured to within a few yards; while on the earth's surface there are 30,000,000 square kilometres (sixty times the extent of France), upon which the foot of man has never trod, which the eye of man has never seen.

Eye, Knowledge, Science, Seen, Sixty, Vast

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

Nature, Night, Limits, Capabilities, Manisftations
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