Accounts Quote by John Henry Newman

“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science.…

— David Nicholls

You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

— James A. Garfield

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

— Paul Valery

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

— Margaret MacMillan

Literature is the history of mind.

— Ally Mbululo

Literature is the history of the soul.

— Barry Hannah

The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the…

— William H. Prescott

“The knowledge both of the Poet and the Man of science is pleasure; but the knowledge of the one cleaves to us as a…

— William Wordsworth

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

— David Daiches