 | 1869 - 406 pages
...lamp, and my favourite astronomer, I chanced upon that saying of the immortal Kepler — " I can well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." (What uncountable thanks we owe the expositors of God's first volume, titled Nature ; surely no less... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1848 - 380 pages
...cast. The book is written, to be read either now, or by posterity, I care not which. — It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer ! " More than two hundred years have rolled away since Kepler announced his great discoveries. Science... | |
 | Education - 1851 - 412 pages
...The die is cast, the book is written, to be read now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." Again Truth had triumphed, God was vindicated, and Kepler is a deathless name. Vain would it be in... | |
 | 1851 - 416 pages
...the most astonishing feat ever performed in the whole range of pure science, when he said : " I can wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." Milton too " fell on evil times ;" but he wrought for truth with the strength of a giant, and the constancy... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 366 pages
...is cast. The book is written, to be read either now, or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer ! " More than two hundred years have rolled away since Kepler announced his great discoveries. Science... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 374 pages
...is cast. The book is written, to be read either now, or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer ! " More than two hundred years have rolled away since Kepler announced his great discoveries. Science... | |
 | Queenwood college - 1853 - 292 pages
...is cast. The book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer!" Years have passed away, .generations have succeeded generations. Science has progressed, rapid, irresistible... | |
 | William King Tweedie - Biography - 1864 - 482 pages
...is cast ; the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. I may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for a discoverer."* But family griefs were added to pecuniary embarrassment. Kepler's mother was a woman... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...is cast. The book is written, to be read either now, or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer !" More than two hundred years have rolled away since Kepler announced his great discoveries. Science... | |
 | St. Andrews' Medical Graduates' Association - Medical education - 1868 - 290 pages
...is cast. The book is written, to be read either now, or by posterity, I care not which.. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." In like manner our Harvey, labouring out the problem of hia life, dissevers the work from the routine... | |
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If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast. The book is written, to be read either now or by posterity — I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer. 
