The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Economics is not a gay science. It is a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;—that great deep sea of azure that swims overhead; the winds… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
