Garrett P. Serviss - Curiosities of the Sky (1909)

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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.

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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

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