The barrier has begun to yield.

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical kind, of such portions of the numerical or quantitative results of observation as remain outstanding and unaccounted for, after subducting and allowing for all that would result from the strict application of known principles.

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.