"For me, astronomy is a vain occupation, it means dealing with trifles. Schopenhauer showed that the external world is only a form of our imagination... Nowadays, any educated person knows that space and time do not exist. The world existed, but we cannot know how it came into being. Moses' story of the creation of the world is preferable to the Darwinian theory of evolution. Following this path, I cannot reach any conclusion, therefore the path is false.
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Leo TolstoyAll Translations
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For me, astronomy is a vain occupation, it means dealing with trifles. Schopenhauer showed that the external world is only a form of our imagination... Nowadays, any educated person knows that space and time do not exist. The world existed, but we cannot know how it came into being. Moses' story of the creation of the world is preferable to the Darwinian theory of evolution. Following this path, I cannot reach any conclusion, therefore the path is false.
""Pentru mine, astronomia e o ocupape deșarta, înseamnă să te ocupi de fleacuri. Schopenhauer a arătat că lumea exterioară e numai o formă a închipuirii noastre... În ziua de azi, orice om cu educație știe că spațiul și timpul nu exista. Lumea exista, dar nu putem ști cum a luat ființă. Povestea lui Moise despre facerea lumii e de preferat teoriei darwiniste a evoluției. Urmând această cale, nu pot ajunge la nici o concluzie, prin urmare calea e falsă."