Lessons Quote by 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 greatest lessons.”

John Herschel

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

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

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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 classes, that…

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

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

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

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

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

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Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither…

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

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

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“Memories of past. Heartaches of old. Courage of brass. Lessons of gold.”

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