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Science Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
- To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect…
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed…
- Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating…
- I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than…
- If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.
- Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
- There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be…
- These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
- The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to…
- I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons…
- If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but…
- Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more…
- When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;…
- The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made…
- ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
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