The fact is that our knowledge of the universe has been in the nature of a slow and gradual evolution, commencing at a very early period in human history, and destined to go forward without stop, as we hope, so long as civilization shall endure.


Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896, The Problems of Astronomy (p. 83)

Simon Newcomb Quotes

The fact is that our knowledge of the universe has been in the nature of a slow and gradual evolution, commencing at a very early period in human...

The fact is that our knowledge of the universe has been in the nature of a slow and gradual evolution, commencing at a very early period in human...

The fact is that our knowledge of the universe has been in the nature of a slow and gradual evolution, commencing at a very early period in human...

The fact is that our knowledge of the universe has been in the nature of a slow and gradual evolution, commencing at a very early period in human...