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This is all to which weak and limited beings can pretend, beings who occupy a point, and last but a moment in this mighty edifice built for eternity.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

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About Johann Heinrich Lambert

(26 August 1728 – 25 September 1777) was a Swiss polymath who made important contributions to the subjects of mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy and map projections.

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Alternative Names: Jean-Henri Lambert

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Robert Chambers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Johannes Kepler Giordano Bruno Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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We will found our hypothesis in the general laws of motion, whose effects are every where the same, and whose influence extends to the utmost limits of matter.

We suppose the existence of a wise and beneficent Being who presided over the formation of the World, and who is pleased to display his infinite perfections on this illustrious theatre.

But, are the faculties of our nature equal to this? and what are the principles which ought to guide us in these researches?

This is all to which weak and limited beings can pretend, beings who occupy a point, and last but a moment in this mighty edifice built for eternity. - Johann Heinrich Lambert

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