““Sir William Herschel was the first person to discover a planet beyond those easily visible to the naked eye, and he was ready to name it after the King—always a safe bet when you are his subject. Had Sir William succeeded, the planet list would read: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and George. Fortunately, clearer heads prevailed and the classical name Uranus was adopted some years later.””
![“Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the…” quote by Johann Gottfried Galle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d6/johann-gottfried-galle-159009_academy_sir-the-planet-neptune-whose-position-yo_2205721.jpg)
![“I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth. [ Having identified Uranus (1781), the first planet discovered since antiquity .]” quote by William Herschel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ef2/william-herschel-28349_astronomy_i-have-looked-further-into-space-than-ev_2046887.jpg)
![“... the irregularities of the motion of Uranus...in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet beyond it. [John Couch Adams on how he began to discover Neptune.]” quote by John Couch Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a18/john-couch-adams-249062_astronomy_the-irregularities-of-the-motion-of-uran_962609.jpg)
![“They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b0/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_century_they-scientists-of-centuries-past-call-o_12921.jpg)
