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Percival Lowell byl americký podnikatel, matematik, astronom a diplomat. Od roku 1894 se intenzivně věnoval studiu Marsu a snažil se prokázat umělý původ marsovských kanálů. Díky svým výpočtům předpověděl také existenci Pluta, které bylo objeveno 14 let po jeho smrti. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. březen 1855 – 12. listopad 1916
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“Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants”

Percival Lowell kniha Mars and its Canals

Preface
Mars and its Canals (1906)
Kontext: Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

“War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. The wisest realize that there are better ways for practicing heroism and other and more certain ends of insuring the survival of the fittest. It is something a people outgrow.”

Percival Lowell kniha Mars and its Canals

Zdroj: Mars and its Canals (1906), Chapter XXXII, Conclusion
Kontext: War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. The wisest realize that there are better ways for practicing heroism and other and more certain ends of insuring the survival of the fittest. It is something a people outgrow. But whether they consciously practice peace or not, nature in its evolution eventually practices it for them, and after enough of the inhabitants of a globe have killed each other off, the remainder must find it more advantageous to work together for the common good.

“That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.”

Percival Lowell kniha Mars and its Canals

Zdroj: Mars and its Canals (1906), Chapter XXXII, Conclusion