"I could never have known so well how……" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and… - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence."

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