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“That which the sciences can add to the privileges of the human race has never been more marked than at the present moment. ... The air seems to become as accessible to him as the waters.... The name of Montgolfier, the names of those hardy navigators of the new element, will live through time; but who among us, on seeing these superb experiments, has not felt his soul elevated, his ideas expanded, his mind enlarged?”

Quote by Jean Sylvain Bailly

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Jean Sylvain Bailly

Jean Sylvain Bailly was a French politician born on September 15, 1736, and died on November 12, 1793. He served as the President of the National Assembly during the early stages of the French Revolution. more

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