5 Quotes & Sayings By William Herschel

William Herschel was born in 1738 in Hanover, England. He was raised by his parents and grandparents, and received his early education at home. At the age of 15, he began to study math and astronomy under his uncle (the astronomer William Herschel) at the University of Cambridge. After completing his studies there, William continued to study mathematics under John Covelle at Cambridge University Read more

In 1760, he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Göttingen in Germany, where he remained for nearly 20 years.

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The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to facts as they occur, but with the eye of reason and experience. William Herschel
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By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns. William Herschel
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We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration. William Herschel
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I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the William Herschel