Walt Whitman
1865 · United States · Walking out of an astronomy lecture full of charts and figures
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," in Leaves of Grass
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Charles Darwin
1859 · England
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
On the Origin of Species, the last sentence
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