“Although every part of the human frame has been fashioned by the same Divine hand and exhibits the most marvellous and beneficent adaptions for the use of men, the human eye stands pre-eminent above them all as the light of the body and the organ by which we become acquainted with the minutest and the nearest, the largest and most remote of the Creator’s work”

— David Brewster

As quoted in Good Words (1862), Volume 3. p. 170.
Also quoted in Martyr of science, Royal Scottish Museum (1984), p. 80.

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