Benjamin Peirce Quote

The brilliant and majestic firmament is studded with stars, distributed under no order which can be deciphered, and with an irregularity greater than that of the spots of water on a floor, dashed from a dripping brush.


Ideality in the Physical Sciences, Lecture I (p. 22), Little, Brown & Co. 1881


The brilliant and majestic firmament is studded with stars, distributed under no order which can be deciphered, and with an irregularity greater than ...

The brilliant and majestic firmament is studded with stars, distributed under no order which can be deciphered, and with an irregularity greater than ...

The brilliant and majestic firmament is studded with stars, distributed under no order which can be deciphered, and with an irregularity greater than ...

The brilliant and majestic firmament is studded with stars, distributed under no order which can be deciphered, and with an irregularity greater than ...