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The conjurer and his opposite.  What is astonishing in the realm of science is the opposite of what is astonishing in the art of the conjurer. For the latter wants to persuade us to see a very simple causality where in truth a very complicated causality is at work. Science, on the contrary, compels us to abandon belief in simple causalities precisely where everything seems so easy to comprehend and we are the fools of appearance. The 'simplest' things are very complicated  a fact at which one can never cease to marvel!

Friedrich Nietzsche - Daybreak
Book I - Aphorism # 6

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