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Another famous intellectual on humility toward Nature, Goethe:

Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her, she despises; and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.



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