"Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit,……" — John Herschel
"Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn."
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John Herschel
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22 Quotes by John Herschel
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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any…
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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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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty…
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Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and…
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