Wonder... And not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first… — Adam Smith
Wonder... And not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
1790
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Smith, Adam. "The History of Astronomy." Essays on Philosophical Subjects, edited by W. P. D. Wightman. Liberty Fund, 1982, sect. 3, para. 3.
Original citation
Smith, Adam. "The History of Astronomy." Essays on Philosophical Subjects. London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies/Edinburgh: W. Creech, 1795, sect. 3, para. 3.
