Benjamin Silliman Jr. Quotes

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Knowledge is nothing but the just and full comprehension of the real nature of things, physical, intellectual, and moral; it is co-existence with the universe of being; reaching back to the dawn of time, and forward to its consummation.

Benjamin Silliman Jr.

Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects, so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being always remote and inaccessible, do not lose their dignity.

Benjamin Silliman Jr.