Certain Quote by Percival Lowell

“That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.” quote by Percival Lowell — Download Open image

“That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.”

Percival Lowell

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