在茫茫的大沙漠上盲目地去找水井,真荒唐。然而我们还是开始去寻找了。
The legacy of science is the betterment of humanity.
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.