| A day will come in
which zealous research over long periods of time will bring to light
things that now still
lie hidden. The life of a single man, even if he devotes it
entirely
to the heavens, is insufficient to fathom so broad a field.
Knowledge
will thus unfold only overt the course of generations. But there
will
come a time when our descendents will marvel that we did not know the
things
that seem so simple to them. Many discoveries are reserved for
future
centuries, however, when we are long forgotten. Our universe
would
be deplorably insignificant had it not offered every generation new
problems.
Nature does not surrender her secrets once and for all.
Seneca, "Naturales
quaestiones"
Book 7 (1st Century A.D.)
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