Nothing to Learn From Us

Barbicane: If then these Selenites have existed their hundreds of thousands of years, and if their brain is of the same organization of the human brain, they have already invented all that we have invented, and even what we may invent in future ages. They have nothing to learn from us, and we have everything to learn from them.

Barbicane Around the Moon (1870) by Jules Verne

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Context: Ardan has packed games as gifts for the Moon's inhabitants, and Barbicane doubts they would need them.

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Source: Chapter V: The Cold of Space

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