One of the great charms of the study of Nature lies in the circumstance that no new advance, however small, is ever final. There are no blind alleys in scientific investigation. Every new fact is the opening of a new path.


Photographic Spectra of Stars (p. 12), February 6, 1880


One of the great charms of the study of Nature lies in the circumstance that no new advance, however small, is ever final. There are no blind alleys...

One of the great charms of the study of Nature lies in the circumstance that no new advance, however small, is ever final. There are no blind alleys...

One of the great charms of the study of Nature lies in the circumstance that no new advance, however small, is ever final. There are no blind alleys...

One of the great charms of the study of Nature lies in the circumstance that no new advance, however small, is ever final. There are no blind alleys...