Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote

The men of science are like the coral insects in the sea; they build on the work of their predecessors and rise ever higher and higher...


Thoughts about Art, Chapter VII (p. 100), Roberts Brothers. 1888


The men of science are like the coral insects in the sea; they build on the work of their predecessors and rise ever higher and higher...

The men of science are like the coral insects in the sea; they build on the work of their predecessors and rise ever higher and higher...

The men of science are like the coral insects in the sea; they build on the work of their predecessors and rise ever higher and higher...

The men of science are like the coral insects in the sea; they build on the work of their predecessors and rise ever higher and higher...