Sir William Herschel

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    Matrimonial devotion
    Doesn’t seem to suit her notion.
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically
    digested and arranged, so as to become attainable by one. The
    knowledge of reasons and their conclusions constitutes abstract, that of causes and their effects, and of the laws of nature, natural science.
    —John Frederick William Herschel (1792–1871)