“Were we really more advanced than the alchemists of Carmona?…”

“Were we really more advanced than the alchemists of Carmona? We had brought to light certain facts that they were not aware of, we had organised them into the right order; but had we advanced even a step nearer to the mysterious heart of the universe?”

— Simone de Beauvoir

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Beauvoir, Simone de. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Simone de Beauvoir. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir

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