Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and becom…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?
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