 | Joel Dorman Steele - Astronomy - 1884 - 358 pages
...laws of nature, Kepler exclaimed, "Nothing holds me. 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." f Galileo. — Contemporary... | |
 | Literature - 1885 - 544 pages
...philosopher, in the wild excitement of his glorious triumph, exclaims, " Nothing holds me. I will indulge my sacred fury. If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if...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... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1885 - 580 pages
...Familliar Astronomy," p. 336, exclaimed, almost frantic with joy, when he discovered his Third Law: " The die is cast, the book is written to be read either...posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.' Archimedes is said to have left... | |
 | 1885 - 608 pages
...Kepler had written his work ' On the most perfect Harmony of the Celestial Motions,' he exclaimed, ' The die is cast — the book is written, to be read...posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited 6,000 years for an interpreter of His works.' But if He, who is the... | |
 | 1886 - 572 pages
...and, almost wild with triumph, exclaimed: "Nothing holds me ! I will indulge my sacred fury ! The hook 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 lias waited 6,000 years for an observer." If Kepler was the minister of science,... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pages
...vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God — far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I...— I care not which : it may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited 6000 years for an observer." That this knell of the old astronomy should... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Evolution - 1888 - 504 pages
...claiming the applause of his contemporaries, but leaves his fame to after-ages in these noble words : " 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, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." And when a greater than Kepler... | |
 | David Nasmith - Humanities - 1892 - 316 pages
...dawn ; a very few days since the unveiled sun — most admirable to gaze on — burst out upon me. . . The die is cast, the book is written, to be read either...posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an interpreter of his works." As the planes... | |
 | David Nasmith - Humanities - 1892 - 316 pages
...dawn ; a very few days since the unveiled sun — most admirable to gaze on — burst out upon me. . . The die is cast, the book is written, to be read either...posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an interpreter of his works." As the planes... | |
 | Mormons - 1892 - 648 pages
...after his discovery of the three laws of heavenly bodies, exclaimed: "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!" With the ancients, there existed... | |
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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, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. 
