The progress of science is as orderly and determinate as the movements of the planets, the solar systems, and the celestial firmaments. It is regulated by laws as exact and irresistible as those of astronomy, optics, or chemistry.


Lectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays Scientific and Literary, (Volume 1), The Atomic Theory before Christ and Since (p. 81)


The progress of science is as orderly and determinate as the movements of the planets, the solar systems, and the celestial firmaments. It is...

The progress of science is as orderly and determinate as the movements of the planets, the solar systems, and the celestial firmaments. It is...

The progress of science is as orderly and determinate as the movements of the planets, the solar systems, and the celestial firmaments. It is...

The progress of science is as orderly and determinate as the movements of the planets, the solar systems, and the celestial firmaments. It is...