"Discovery attends on every quest, Except for renegades who shirk the toil. Now certain men have pushed discovery Into the sphere of heaven. Some part they know,— How planets rise and set and wheel about, And of the sun’s eclipse. If men have probed Worlds far remote, can problems of this earth, This common home to which we’re born, defy them?"
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Fragment of a lost comedy of Alexis; tr. , "The Confident Scientist", in The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation (1938), p. 524
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