As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.

- Richard A. Proctor

The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.

- Richard A. Proctor

Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.

- Richard A. Proctor

From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the s…

- Richard A. Proctor