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But look, the morn in russet mantle clad,
Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene I, spoken by HoratioIn context
- Nature
In nature’s infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene II, spoken by SoothsayerIn context
- Knowledge
- Nature
Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions
William Shakespeare1564–1616Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1597), Act III, Scene I, spoken by HotspurIn context
- Nature
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter IVIn context
- Life & Death
It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter VIn context
- Life & Death
O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Ode to the West Wind (1820)In context
- Hope
- Nature
Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822To a Skylark (1820)In context
- Nature
The story of the hero who slays the devouring dragon was not merely a symbol of day and night, of summer and winter; it was a literal explanation of the phenomena, it was the science of early times.
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Profits of Religion (1918)
Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.
Peter Singerborn 1946The Expanding Circle (2011 edition), Afterword, p. 187
- Philosophy
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. II, letter to Miss Georgiana Harcourt (1838), p. 410
- Comedy
- Nature
See how the trees beside a stream in flood
Save, if they yield to force, each spray unharmed,
But by resisting perish root and branch.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by HaemonIn context
Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all.
Herbert Spencer1820–1903The Development Hypothesis (1852)
- Facts
The truth is, that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Herbert Spencer1820–1903“What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?” (1859), in Education (1861), Ch. 1
- Poetry
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the black bird.
Wallace Stevens1879–1955Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1917)In context
- Nature