William Huggins Quotes

United Kingdom, Astronomer
February 7, 1824 – May, 12, 1910.

Sir William Huggins OM KCB PRS was an English astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins.

May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?

William Huggins
One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether the same chemical elements as those of our earth are present throughout the universe, was most satisfactorily settled in the affirmative. (1909)

William Huggins

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

William Huggins