Agnes Mary Clerke quotes
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“What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.”
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“Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.”
-- Agnes Mary ClerkeSource : Agnes Mary Clerke (2010). “A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century”, p.453, Cambridge University Press
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“Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance”
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Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
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“Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.”
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Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.
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