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Agnes Mary Clerke
(10 Feb 1842 - 20 Jan 1907)
Irish astronomical writer.
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Science Quotes by Agnes Mary Clerke (1 quote)
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.
— Agnes Mary Clerke
In A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century (1893), 528. Also quoted in Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain (1986), 240.
See also:
- 10 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Clerke's birth.
- Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics, by Mary Brück. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
