Celestial Phenomena

Famous quotes containing the words celestial phenomena, celestial and/or phenomena:

    We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. It is simply the mode in which all phenomena are reasoned about, rendered precise and exact.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)