Robert Stawell Ball Quote

The genuine student of Nature loves to get to the heart of a great problem like this; he loves to be able to follow it, not through mere formulae or abstract principles, but so as to be able to visualize its truth and feel its certainty.


Essays in Astronomy, Atoms and Sunbeams (p. 4), D. Appleton & Co. 1900


The genuine student of Nature loves to get to the heart of a great problem like this; he loves to be able to follow it, not through mere formulae or...

The genuine student of Nature loves to get to the heart of a great problem like this; he loves to be able to follow it, not through mere formulae or...

The genuine student of Nature loves to get to the heart of a great problem like this; he loves to be able to follow it, not through mere formulae or...

The genuine student of Nature loves to get to the heart of a great problem like this; he loves to be able to follow it, not through mere formulae or...