Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

• Passion
• Ambition
• Comparison
• Astronomy

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• Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Passion
  • Ambition
  • Comparison