"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" — John Herschel

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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…
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific…
According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once…
Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not…
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on…
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can…
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…
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…
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the…
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty…

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