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Sir John R. Seeley
(10 Sep 1834 - 13 Jan 1895)
English historian and writer who published a religious work, Ecce Homo (1865), at first anonymously. His series of essays contributed (1875-1878) to Macmillan’s Magazine titled “Natural Religion” were collected and supplemented in book form published with the same name in 1882.
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Science Quotes by Sir John R. Seeley (1 quote)
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion, analogies between phenomena of a different order suggest themselves and set the imagination in motion; the mind is haunted with the sense of a vast unity not yet discoverable or nameable. There is food for contemplation which never runs short; you are gazing at an object which is always growing clearer, and yet always, in the very act of growing clearer, presenting new mysteries.
— Sir John R. Seeley
From 'Natural History', Macmillan's Magazine (1875), 31, 366.
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) -- 
