Agnes Mary Clerke - Knowledge Quotes

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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 fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

Agnes Mary Clerke

An attempt to combine, in a general survey, some definite particulars of knowledge regarding our sidereal surroundings.

Agnes Mary Clerke

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.

Agnes Mary Clerke

Progress is the result, not so much of sudden flights of genius, as of sustained, patient, often commonplace endeavor; and the true lesson of scientific history lies in the close connection which it discloses between the most brilliant developments of knowledge and the faithful accomplishment of his daily task by each individual thinker and worker.

Agnes Mary Clerke