3 John Herschel Quotes on Philosophy

John Herschel quotes on philosophy

2. Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

3. To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling.

5. We must never forget that it is principles not phenomena,-laws, not insulated, independent facts, which are the object and the inquiry of the natural philosopher.