Richard Anthony Proctor Quote

We have learned how small is our domain in space, but as yet we have scarcely been willing to admit that man's duration in time is as utterly minute, and in a sense insignificant.


The Poetry of Astronomy, Age of the Sun and Earth (p. 1), Smith, Elder & Co. 1881


We have learned how small is our domain in space, but as yet we have scarcely been willing to admit that man's duration in time is as utterly minute, ...

We have learned how small is our domain in space, but as yet we have scarcely been willing to admit that man's duration in time is as utterly minute, ...

We have learned how small is our domain in space, but as yet we have scarcely been willing to admit that man's duration in time is as utterly minute, ...

We have learned how small is our domain in space, but as yet we have scarcely been willing to admit that man's duration in time is as utterly minute, ...