Agnes Mary Clerke: Doing

Agnes Mary Clerke was British astronomer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“Thus, not merely what it can do, but the rate at which it can do it, has to be considered in estimating the value of photography as an ally in astronomy.”

Agnes Mary Clerke book The System of the Stars

Source: The System of the Stars (1890), p. 33.

“Comets encountering these precincts must be perplexed to decide between the two potentates claiming their allegiance, and perhaps on occasions pay their court to each in turns, throwing out tails, as they do so, in all sorts of anomalous and contradictory directions.”

Agnes Mary Clerke book The System of the Stars

Of the nature of any planetary system round the double star Alpha Centauri; p. 168.
The System of the Stars (1890)

“The planets revolved in circles because it was in their nature to do so, just as laudanum sends to sleep because it possesses a virtus dormitiva.”

Agnes Mary Clerke

Of the Greek approach to astronomy; p. 1.
History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century (1885; 3rd ed 1893)

Nature , Sleep