peu de chose
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Is it worth while, pour si peu de chose?
From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen
Laplace's words, 'Ce que nous connaissons est peu de chose; ce que nous ignorons est immense,' were not, as is commonly stated, his last.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
The stanza from which Boswell quotes is as follows:— 'O Maupertuis, cher Maupertuis, Que notre vie est peu de chose!
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
"Only the understanding has a language," he almost ruefully declares in L'Evolution creatrice; and the understanding is, for him, compared with intuition peu de chose.
From Bergson and His Philosophy by John Alexander Gunn
It is commonly said that the last words of Laplace were, "Ce que nous connaissons est peu de chose; ce que nous ignorons est immense."
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
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