When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, How soon, unaccountable, I b...ecame tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of th...e astronomer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good ...player.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The church cemetery contains the grave of David Young (1781-1852), the astronomer who is said to have charged the French Academy o...nly $10 for making the decision that the Star of Bethlehem was not a comet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sage as astronomer.--As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you," you still lack viewpoint of knowledge....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the th...eatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know of no studies so composing as those of the classical scholar. When we have sat down to them, life seems as still and serene... as if it were very far off, and I believe it is not habitually seen from any common platform so truly and unexaggerated as in the light of literature. In serene hours we contemplate the tour of the Greek and Latin authors with more pleasure than the traveler does the fairest scenery of Greece or Italy. Where shall we find a more refined society? That highway down from Homer and Hesiod to Horace and Juvenal is more attractive than the Appian. Reading the classics or conversing with those old Greeks and Latins in their surviving works, is like walking amid the stars and constellations, a high and by way serene to travel. Indeed, the true scholar will be not a little of an astronomer in his habits. Distracting cares will not be allowed to obstruct his field of vision, for the higher regions of literature, like astronomy, are above storm and darkness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account f...or its origin. At last we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »