John Herschel

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

— John Herschel

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

— John Herschel

What God sends is welcome.

— John Herschel

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

— John Herschel

God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives.

— John Herschel

The barrier has begun to yield.

— John Herschel

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

— John Herschel

There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.

— John Herschel

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

— John Herschel

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…

— John Herschel

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next…

— John Herschel

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…

— John Herschel

The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

— John Herschel

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

— John Herschel

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…

— John Herschel

It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…

— John Herschel

Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be a…

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…

— John Herschel

No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the…

— John Herschel

A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to…

— John Herschel

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If…

— John Herschel

A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to…

— John Herschel

Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…

— John Herschel

First, In showing in how to avoid attempting impossibilities. Second, In securing us from important mistakes in attempting what is, in itself…

— John Herschel

The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…

— John Herschel

The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…

— John Herschel

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the…

— John Herschel

Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye…

— John Herschel

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…

— John Herschel

According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…

— John Herschel

There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's…

— John Herschel

[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…

— John Herschel