Top 4 Quotes by Richard A. Proctor

Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.

Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.

Atheism, Waste, Astronomy

From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.

Richard A. Proctor

Strong, Struggle, Exercise

As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.

Richard A. Proctor

Astronomers, Term

Richard A. Proctor (1872). “Essays on astronomy: a series of papers on planets and meteors, the sun and sun-surrounding space, stars and star cloudets, and a dissertation on the approaching transits of venus : preceded by a scetch of the life and work of Sir John Herschel”, p.1