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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.

  John Herschel

  Next, Astronomy, Treats

  Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1851). “Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”, p.287

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• ...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

  John Herschel

  Nature, Delicacy, Architecture

  Sir John Frederick William Herschel, William Whewell, George Henry Lewes, Hermann von Helmholz, James Clerk Maxwell (1996). “The Origins of Modern Philosophy of Science, 1830-1914: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”

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• God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives.

  John Herschel

  Wish, God Knows, Know How

  John Herschel's letter to Charles Babbage, as quoted in Gunther Buttmann "The Shadow of the Telescope: A Biography of John Herschel" (p. 14), 1970.

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

  John Herschel

  Self, Stones, Virtue

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• According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep enough, (and due TIME allowed!!!) must assume that state,-none can escape. All records of former worlds must ultimately perish.

  John Herschel

  Science, Rocks, Views

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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 revelation to make known; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous.

  John Herschel

  Doubt, Atheism, Deities

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