-All science (and by no means only astronomy, with regard to the humiliating and deteriorating effect of which Kant has made a remarkable confession, "it annihilates my own importance"), all science, natural as much as unnatural-by unnatural I mean the self-critique of reason-nowadays sets out to talk man out of his present opinion of himself, as though that opinion had been nothing but a bizarre piece of conceit;
Zientzia orok (eta ez astronomiak soilik, zeinen eragin umiliagarri eta degradatzaileaz egin baitzuen Kantek aitorpen ohargarria, "horrek deuseztu egiten du nire garrantzia..."), zientzia orok, nola naturalak hala ez-naturalak-horrela deitzen diot nik ezagutzaren autokritikari-orain arte bere buruari zion apreziotik disuaditzera jotzen du, aprezio hori uzi aldrebes bat besterik izan ez balitz bezala;