"But may there not be other planets on which intelligent life exists, and where this heat, which passes us by, serves other beings than ourselves?"
There may be; but if we could suppose all the other planets of the solar system to be inhabited, it would help the matter very little; for the whole together intercept so little of the great sum, that all of it which Nature bestows on man is still as nothing to what she bestows on some end — if end there be — which is to us as yet inscrutable.


The New Astronomy (1888), p. 97

Samuel Pierpont Langley Quotes

But may there not be other planets on which intelligent life exists, and where this heat, which passes us by, serves other beings than ourselves?...

But may there not be other planets on which intelligent life exists, and where this heat, which passes us by, serves other beings than ourselves?...

But may there not be other planets on which intelligent life exists, and where this heat, which passes us by, serves other beings than ourselves?...

But may there not be other planets on which intelligent life exists, and where this heat, which passes us by, serves other beings than ourselves?...