Joshua Reynolds Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Inspirational, Success, Freedom

  Quoted in Time magazine, December 8, 1930.

• I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do but perplex and puzzle the Student, when he compares them, or misguide him if he gives himself up to their authority; but bringing them under one general head, can alone give rest and satisfaction to an inquisitive mind.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Confused, Mean, Science

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.13

• Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Teaching, Science

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.22

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