QuoteQuest“Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Letter to Eckermann (30 December 1823)
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
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