23 Quotes by John Herschel

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives.

It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be fully and completely explained, in all its circumstances, without a union of several, perhaps of all, the sciences.

Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically digested and arranged, so as to become attainable by one.

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