Walt Whitman Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

  Walt Whitman

  Learning, Science, Discovery

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.521, NYU Press

• I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Ideas, Way

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

• Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Encouragement, Art, Science

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.46

• O amazement of things-even the least particle!

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Leaves Of Grass, Amazement

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.303, NYU Press

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Years, Hearing

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.63, NYU Press

• Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

  Walt Whitman

  Faith, Knowledge, Science

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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