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[T]his is the goal of all living, that the cosmos may be known, and…
Quote byOlaf Stapledon · 1886–1950
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter XV: The Last Men; Section 4, “Cosmology” (p. 231).
English (original)
[T]his is the goal of all living, that the cosmos may be known, and admired, and that it may be crowned with further beauties. Nowhere and at no time, so far as we can tell, at least within our own galaxy, has the adventure reached further than in ourselves. And in us, what has been achieved is but a minute beginning. But it is a real beginning.
— Olaf Stapledon
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