Top Quotes & Sayings by Norman Lockyer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English astronomer Norman Lockyer.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Norman Lockyer

Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen, he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of the influential journal Nature.

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation.
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