Herbert Hall Turner Quotes

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Discovery is expected from an astronomer. The Popular lay mind scarcely thinks of a naturalist nowadays discovery, discovering new animals, or of a chemist as finding new elements save on rare occasions; but it does think of the astronomer as making discoveries.

Herbert Hall Turner

Of all the meteors in the sky There's none like Comet Halley. We see it with the naked eye And periodically.

Herbert Hall Turner

When Euclid framed his definitions He did not miss "the point"; Space was prescribed by his conditions For angles twain conjoint.

Herbert Hall Turner