Alexander Winchell Quotes

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Could our vision be unsealed, we should behold the infinite firmament dotted with meteors hurrying to and fro, as snow-flakes in the wildest wintry storm.

Alexander Winchell
Science is an indefatigable reaper; but how many tares do we find bound up with the wheat! How many exploded theories have left their wrecks along the highway of time! How many abandoned explanations and beliefs lie scattered by the way-side!

Alexander Winchell
Any thing which is a plan has been thought out. The plans of Nature are the expressions of the mind.

Alexander Winchell
The study of science is a virtue. Attention to geology is a human duty.

Alexander Winchell
The din of a great controversy sounds in oar ears. Men of thought have been summoned to choose their banner, and range themselves upon one side or the other of the line of battle. It is the "conflict" between Religion and Science which has thrown the world into commotion.

Alexander Winchell
It is not for its facts, but for the significance of the facts, that science is valuable.

Alexander Winchell
The stability of the solid earth is instability itself.

Alexander Winchell
It appears from a cursory acquaintance with the facts, that faith and science have lived in perpetual strife. Faith has been wont to appropriate whatever has fallen within her reach, and science has declared, from time to time, that certain of her claims were indefensible; and she has been compelled to recede.

Alexander Winchell
That mysterious visitant which paints its luminous streak along the evening sky - sudden, brilliant, but evanescent.

Alexander Winchell
Out from the depths of space - beyond the clouds - beyond the atmosphere - from a granary of material germs which stock the empire of the blue sky, comes a perpetual but invisible rain of material atoms - like the evening dew, emerging from the transparency of space into a state of growing visibility.

Alexander Winchell
Comets are facts of observation; there is no mistake as to the real existence of such bodies, whatever they may be. They always excite our admiration. They are full of wonder. They come from the unsearchable depths of space, and after shining in our heavens a few weeks, disappear in the unsearchable depths.

Alexander Winchell