First, In showing in how to avoid attempting impossibilities. Second, In securing us from important mistakes in attempting what is, in itself possible, by means either inadequate or actually opposed to the end in view. Thirdly, In enabling us to… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
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. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries — John Herschel Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.” quote by John Herschel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c0b/john-herschel-18983_complicated_when-nature-appears-complicated-the-mome_203650.jpg)
![“Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders.” quote by John Herschel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/91d/john-herschel-18983_accustomed_accustomed-to-trace-the-operation-of-gen_1136585.jpg)
