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Science Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of…
- The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated,…
- Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A…
- And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal…
- The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot…
- Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.
- Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
- When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of…
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