Science Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

— Thomas Carlyle

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

— Thomas Carlyle

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

— Thomas Carlyle

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

— Thomas Carlyle

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

— Thomas Carlyle

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

— Thomas Carlyle

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Economics is not a gay science. It is a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call,…

— Thomas Carlyle

“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

— Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty,…

— Thomas Carlyle

Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself…

— Thomas Carlyle

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was…

— Thomas Carlyle

“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

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude…

— Thomas Carlyle

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

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