THE COSMIC PERSPECTIVE - Carl Sagan, Michio Kaku, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jason Silva, Allan Watts

Comment by Michael Grove on June 7, 2014 at 12:30

'Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is

acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime,

the most interesting, and the most useful. For, by knowledge

derived from this science, not only the bulk of the Earth is

discovered . . . but our very faculties are enlarged with the

grandeur of the ideas it conveys, our minds exalted above

[their] low contracted prejudices.'

 

- James Ferguson, Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, And Made Easy To Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics (1757)

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