Quote#Wisdom
Just take a trifling handful, O philosopher!
Quote byMortimer Collins · 1827–1876
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sky-Making. (To Professor Tyndall), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
English (original)
Just take a trifling handful, O philosopher! Of magic matter: give it a slight toss over The ambient ether—and I don’t see why You should n’t make a sky.
— Mortimer Collins
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