it is absurd … to hope that maybe another Newton may some d… - Immanuel Kant

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it is absurd … to hope that maybe another Newton may some day arise, to make intelligible to us even the genesis of but a blade of grass ("Dialectic of Teleological Judgment" §75)

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Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804), born Emanuel Kant, was a German philosopher.

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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Human reason goes forth inexorably to such questions as cannot be answered by any experiential use of reason or principles based on it.

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