Richard A. Proctor quotes

“Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.”
-- Richard A. Proctor

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“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

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“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

Source : 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

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“The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.”
-- Richard A. Proctor

Source : "Saturn and its System". Book by Richard Anthony Proctor, (2nd edition), Chapter 2, p. 32, 1882.

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“Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.”

Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.”

“All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.”

“I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.”

Source : Alek Wek (2007). “Alek: Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel”, Virago Press (UK)

“I decided to go along with it. If he tried to give me the runaround, I would bolt. I didn't have time to waste on vague answers and evasive language. Matt and Rhys were captive, and Rhys couldn't even sit down.”

“Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them.”

“If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him.”

“Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!”

“As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.”

“This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.”