Sir John Frederick William Herschel (March 7, 1792-May 11, 1871) was an English astronomer, the son of the great astronomer Sir William Herschel. He took his father’s telescope to South Africa where he discovered and catalogued over 500 new stars and nebulae seen from the southern hemisphere. When the HMS Beagle landed at Cape Town, South Africa, on June 3, 1836, the young Charles Darwin visited Sir John Frederick Herschel.
Sir John Frederick Herschel was quoted by Marcel de Serres in 'On the Physical Facts in the Bible Compared with the Discoveries of the Modern Sciences' (The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1845, Vol. 38, 260):
<All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come from on high and are contained in the Sacred Writings.> 1792JH001
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1792JH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Sir John Frederick Herschel, quoted by Marcel de Serres in 'On the Physical Facts in the Bible Compared with the Discoveries of the Modern Sciences' (The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1845, Vol. 38, 260). Tryon Edwards, D.D., The New Dictionary of Thoughts-A Cyclopedia of Quotations (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1852; revised and enlarged by C.H. Catrevas, Ralph Emerson Browns and Jonathan Edwards [descendent, along with Tryon, of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), president of Princeton], 1891; The Standard Book Company, 1955, 1963), p. 49. Henry H. Halley, Halley's Bible Handbook (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1927, 1965), p. 19. Allibone's Prose Quotations, p. 72 and from his Discourse on Natural Philosophy. Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, Oregon: American Heritage Ministries, 1987; Mantle Ministries, 228 Still Ridge, Bulverde, Texas), p. 227.