Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Spring, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.117, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

• Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Distance, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1325, Delphi Classics

• That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fashion, Science, Oddities

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.226, University of Illinois Press

• -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Science, Mirrors, Joy

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

• A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Science, Opinion, Pleasure

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3486, Delphi Classics

• The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Science, Names

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