Quotation by Primo Levi

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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

Primo Levi

Primo Levi (1919–1987), Italian chemist, author. "News From the Sky," Other People's Trades (1985, trans. 1989).

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