William Herschel Quotes

#1. Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.

Kwame Nkrumah

#2. The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to facts as they occur, but with the eye of reason and experience.

William Herschel

#3. I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

William Herschel

#4. I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

William Herschel

#5. All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

William Herschel

#6. When my children were very young, I was slated to go on a business trip. When it was nearly canceled, I decided I wouldn't tell anyone and go off for a week's vacation anyway. In the end, the trip went off as planned. But I was intrigued by the idea of an illicit holiday.

Sophie Hannah

#7. Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain a system of planets, we may have an idea of the numberless globes that serve for the habitaton of living creatures.

William Herschel

#8. The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

William Herschel

#9. I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.
[Having identified Uranus (1781), the first planet discovered since antiquity.]

William Herschel

#10. Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Mark Twain

#11. He broke through the barriers of the skies.

William Herschel

#12. We need not hesitate to admit that the Sun is richly stored with inhabitants.

William Herschel

#13. That planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere. So that the inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours.

William Herschel

#14. Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

Carly Fiorina

#15. Getting to the playoffs is more important than winning an award.

Corey Perry

#16. The combination of both legs leads to social harmony and material abundance.

Marshall Fritz

#17. We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.

William Herschel

#18. I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

Joanne Woodward

#19. Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.

William Herschel

#20. You can forget ya keys or ya wallet, the first girl ya kissed, hell- even my birthday, but you'll never forget me.

Brian Azzarello

#21. The undevout astronomer must be mad.

William Herschel

#22. Educated people may gain a lot of respect due to their in depth of knowladge about society. As a contrary, they would not gain a lot of respect, if they only have a very good financial status.

Saaif Alam

#23. We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

Ray Bradbury

#24. By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.

William Herschel

#25. I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people.

Shannen Doherty

#26. The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

William Herschel

#27. Coelorum perrupit claustra.
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
[Herschel's epitaph]

William Herschel

#28. Finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good as ours, if not perhaps better who can say that it is not extremely probable, nay beyond doubt, that there must be inhabitants on the Moon of some kind or other?

William Herschel

#29. Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

Erri De Luca

#30. Excelsior! You will never again pray, never again repose in limitless trust - you deny it to yourself to remain halted before an ultimate wisdom, ultimate good, ultimate power, and there unharness your thoughts

Friedrich Nietzsche

#31. Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.

Heather Dubrow

#32. The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Robert Henri

#33. Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents ...

Anthony Gregory