...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 HerschelThe besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.
John HerschelGeology, 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