Simon Newcomb Quote

He who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe; Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us as we are.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896 - The Problems of Astronomy (p. 92), Government Printing Office. 1898