Quote #9

What is there in Paradise Lost to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?

More from John Herschel

  1. Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
  2. As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.
  3. Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes…
  4. Richard Anthony Proctor, Astronomical Essays (1872), 'Sir John Herschel', p.1
  5. All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contai…
  6. We must never forget that it is principles not phenomena,-laws, not insulated, independent facts, which are the object and the inquiry of t…
  7. Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and une…
  8. To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling.

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