Camille Flammarion Quote

The science of the stars [astronomy] ceases to be the confidential secret of a small number of the initiated; it penetrates all understandings, it illuminates nature.


Translated by J. Ellard Gore, Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens, Book I, Chapter I (p. 4)


The science of the stars [astronomy] ceases to be the confidential secret of a small number of the initiated; it penetrates all understandings, it...

The science of the stars [astronomy] ceases to be the confidential secret of a small number of the initiated; it penetrates all understandings, it...

The science of the stars [astronomy] ceases to be the confidential secret of a small number of the initiated; it penetrates all understandings, it...

The science of the stars [astronomy] ceases to be the confidential secret of a small number of the initiated; it penetrates all understandings, it...