• The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist 1742-1799
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1. shortsightedness
2. originates
3. observes

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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. by : G. C. Lichtenberg

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