« All Delicacy Quotes
·
John Herschel's Page
Delicacy Quotes by John Herschel
1 Delicacy quote by John Herschel
More Quotes by John Herschel
John Herschel has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
-
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
-
According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
-
Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
-
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
-
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
-
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
-
It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
-
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
-
Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
-
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
-
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
See all 22 quotes by John Herschel »
More Delicacy Quotes
Popular Delicacy quotes from across the collection:
-
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed…
— Jane Austen
-
Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems…
— Unknown Author
-
There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty…
— Sun Tzu
-
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people…
— Ivan Illich
-
I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and…
— Samuel Johnson
-
Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its…
— Rajneesh
-
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in…
— Anatole France
-
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to…
— Charles Dickens
-
Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest…
— Elizabeth Robins Pennell
-
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not…
— Unknown Author
-
You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate…
— Unknown Author
-
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice…
— Unknown Author
See all Delicacy Quotes »
Check Out More Delicacy Quotes by Other Authors
Browse John Herschel Quotes by Category