Garrett P. Serviss Quotes

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His imagination flashed like lightning over the subject of his talk, revealing it at the most unexpected angles, and often he roused us to real enthusiasm for things the very names of which we almost forgot amidst the next day's occupations.

Garrett P. Serviss
As long as men have eyes to see and minds to think, it needs but a word, a hint, a glance, to turn them with rapt and ever increasing attention to the wonders overhead.

Garrett P. Serviss
Here we were, out in the middle of space; and there was the earth, hanging on nothing, like a summer cloud.

Garrett P. Serviss
To most minds mystery is more fascinating than science. But when science itself leads straight up to the 'borders of mystery and there comes to a dead stop, saying, "At present I can no longer see my way," the force of the charm is redoubled.

Garrett P. Serviss
What Froude says of history is true also of astronomy: it is the most impressive where it transcends explanation.

Garrett P. Serviss
The calculation of an eclipse owes all its prestige to the sublimity of its data; the operation, in itself, requires no more mental effort than the preparation of a railway time-table.

Garrett P. Serviss
The stars are the true landmarks which are never changed.

Garrett P. Serviss
It was the friendly stars that first led men round the globe. As long as those well-known sentinels shone, tranquil and steadfast overhead, they had courage to go on and on. If the stars had deserted, even Columbus would have lost heart.

Garrett P. Serviss
Judged by the eye alone, the Milky Way is one of the most delicately beautiful phenomena in the entire realm of nature - a shimmer of silvery gauze stretched across the sky; but studied in the light of its revelations, it is the most stupendous object presented to human ken.

Garrett P. Serviss
The imagination of mankind has never resisted the fascination of the moon.

Garrett P. Serviss