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The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

Camille Flammarion

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Camille Flammarion
Age: 83 †
Born: 1842
Born: February 26
Died: 1925
Died: June 3
Astronomer
Balloonist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Montigny-le-Roi (devenue Val-de-Meuse)
F. Marion
Fulgence Marion
Probable
Mars
Superior
Superiors
Present
Race

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Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.
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What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?
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May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?
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Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.
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Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!
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Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.
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