Richard Anthony Proctor Quote

Among the many striking contrasts between the seeming and the real suggested by the study of astronomy, there is none more startling than the contrast which exists between the apparent repose of the heavens and what is really taking place among the star depths.


Light Science for Leisure Hours Second series (3rd edition), Movements in the Star-depths (p. 30)


Among the many striking contrasts between the seeming and the real suggested by the study of astronomy, there is none more startling than the...

Among the many striking contrasts between the seeming and the real suggested by the study of astronomy, there is none more startling than the...

Among the many striking contrasts between the seeming and the real suggested by the study of astronomy, there is none more startling than the...

Among the many striking contrasts between the seeming and the real suggested by the study of astronomy, there is none more startling than the...