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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)
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
A Popular History of Astronomy (1893). In Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain (1986), 240.
