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Science Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
- ... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
- A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
- Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there…
- Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
- Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is…
- That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and…
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