William Shakespeare Quotes About Science

• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Spiritual, Philosophy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 166

• By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Science

  Cymbeline V.5

• It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Atoms, Ease

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [246]

• Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dream, Sleep

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

• There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

  William Shakespeare

  Fake People, Art, Science

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

• The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Science

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

• In nature's infinite book of secrecy
  A little I can read.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Nature, Book

  1606 Soothsayer. Antony and Cleopatra, act1, sc.2, l.9-10.

• The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,
  Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,
  And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Wind, Water

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.292

• Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
  But bad mortality o'ersways their power,
  How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
  Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Science, Sea

  Sonnet 65

• These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Science, Night

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.10

• Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fate, Science

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

• And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Moon, Night

  William Shakespeare, Kathleen Ermitage (2002). “The Tempest”, p.56, Barron's Educational Series

• But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Strong, Science

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.203

• I'll teach you differences.

  William Shakespeare

  Teaching, Science, Differences

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.892, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Man, more divine, the master of all these, Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Science, Men

• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Science, Light

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

• I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Party, Science

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
  Pale in her anger washes all the air,
  That rheumatic diseases do abound;
  And through this distemperature we see
  The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Science, Moon

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

• O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Kings, Science

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

• And nature must obey necessity.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Science

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 225

• Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Science, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.208, Palgrave Macmillan

• Plutus himself,
  That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,
  Hath not in nature's mystery more science
  Than I have in this ring.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Science, Medicine

  William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser (2003). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

• As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,
  As sun to day, at turtle to her mate,
  As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Science, Moon

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.263, Bloomsbury Publishing

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