I must, in the first place, ask my readers to grant me the scientific use of their imagination; and in order that it may not be called upon to cope with questions as to whether space is infinite or not, or whether space and time ever had a beginning, we will not consider the possibility of the beginning of things or attempt to define the totality of space, but we will in imagination clear a certain part of space and then set certain possibilities at work.


"The History of a Star", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 38, November 1890

Norman Lockyer Quotes

I must, in the first place, ask my readers to grant me the scientific use of their imagination; and in order that it may not be called upon to cope...

I must, in the first place, ask my readers to grant me the scientific use of their imagination; and in order that it may not be called upon to cope...

I must, in the first place, ask my readers to grant me the scientific use of their imagination; and in order that it may not be called upon to cope...

I must, in the first place, ask my readers to grant me the scientific use of their imagination; and in order that it may not be called upon to cope...