Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view,… — John Herschel Copy Share
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that… — John Herschel Copy Share
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that… — John Herschel Copy Share
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel Copy Share
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of… — John Herschel Copy Share
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in… — John Herschel Copy Share
Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries — John Herschel Copy Share
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical kind, of… — John Herschel Copy Share
Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither… — John Herschel Copy Share
Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy. — John Herschel Copy Share
Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be a source of… — John Herschel Copy Share
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is… — John Herschel Copy Share
First, In showing in how to avoid attempting impossibilities. Second, In securing us from important mistakes in attempting what is, in itself possible, by… — John Herschel Copy Share
