Accounts Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Iyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Thassay so hard, so sharp the conquenng. . . . . For out of…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science. To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new…

— Toba Beta

“Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.…

— Emerson

“Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rs Feed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever…

— John Milton

“Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the…

— Alan Moore

“Ye sey right sooth; this Monk he clappeth lowde. He spak how Fortune covered with a clowde I noot nevere what; and als of…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

— Jonathan Swift

“I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good—good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with…

— Aldous Huxley

“Old becomes new, new becomes old.”

— VD

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

— John Wesley