18th-century Meteorologist Quotes

Jean-André Deluc

James Pollard Espy

A considerable obstruction to the real advancement of science, the progress of which is much less retarded by ignorance than by error.

Jean-André Deluc

The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area.

James Pollard Espy