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Science Quotes by George Henry Lewes
- Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these…
- Science is not addressed to poets.
- Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.
- Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out…
- The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular…
- In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.
- Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
- Science is the systematic classification of experience.
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