Action Quote by John Herschel

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

— John Herschel

[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

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

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

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

— John Herschel

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

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

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

— John Herschel

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

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

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

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