Amédée Guillemin Quotes

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In all countries and in all times, the apparition of a comet has been considered as a presage: a presage fortunate or unfortunate according to the circumstances, the popular state of mind, the prevailing degree of superstition, the imbecility of princes, or the calculation of courtiers.

Amédée Guillemin
What are the Heavens? Where the shores of that limitless ocean; where the bottom of that unfathomable abyss?

Amédée Guillemin
What are those brilliant points - those innumerable stars, which, never dim, shine out unceasingly from the dark profound? Are they sown broadcast - orderless, with no other bond save that which perspective lends to them? Or, if not immovable, as we have so long imagined if not golden nails fixed to a crystal vault, whither are they bound?

Amédée Guillemin
How wonderful is the power of man! Chained down to the surface of the Earth, an intelligent atom on a grain of sand lost in the immensity of space, he invents instruments which multiply a thousandfold his vision, he sounds the depths of the ether, gauges the visible universe, and counts the myriads of stars which people it.

Amédée Guillemin
In the contemplation of celestial phenomena, the idea of infinite duration impresses itself on the mind with the same irresistible power as the idea of the infinity of space.

Amédée Guillemin
It is Astronomy that reveals to us the Universe in its majestic whole; it is she who has made us comprehend its structure, and after having gathered its thousand various elements into a gorgeous picture, has initiated us into the eternal laws that govern the Heavens.

Amédée Guillemin