Richard Anthony Proctor Quote

It is not simply the vast in which men have learned to believe, not mere immensity, but the mystery of absolute infinity. On all sides our island home [Earth] is surrounded by a shoreless sea of space.


Mysteries of Time and Space, Newton and Darwin (p. 4), R. Worthington


It is not simply the vast in which men have learned to believe, not mere immensity, but the mystery of absolute infinity. On all sides our island...

It is not simply the vast in which men have learned to believe, not mere immensity, but the mystery of absolute infinity. On all sides our island...

It is not simply the vast in which men have learned to believe, not mere immensity, but the mystery of absolute infinity. On all sides our island...

It is not simply the vast in which men have learned to believe, not mere immensity, but the mystery of absolute infinity. On all sides our island...