Oscar Wilde Quotes About Science

• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Education, Time

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

• Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Change, Beautiful, Art

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.285, OUP Oxford

• It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Science, Artist, Use

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.59, Courier Corporation

• I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Science, Moon

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.665, GENERAL PRESS

• The Governor was strong upon
  The Regulation Act:
  The Doctor said that Death was but
  A scientific fact:
  And twice a day the Chaplain called,
  And left a little tract.

  Oscar Wilde

  Strong, Science, Doctors

  'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1898) pt. 3, st. 3

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