Lord Byron Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Science, Apples

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Tenth”

• Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes;
  And galvanism has set some corpses grinning,
  But has not answer'd like the apparatus
  Of the Humane Society's beginning,
  By which men are unsuffocated gratis:
  What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Men, Machines

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

• [My advice] will one day be found
  With other relics of 'a former world,'
  When this world shall be former, underground,
  Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled,
  Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned,
  Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled
  First out of, and then back again to Chaos,
  The Superstratum which will overlay us.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Science, Advice

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.212

• This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Soul, Age

• Knowledge is not happiness, and science
  But an exchange of ignorance for that
  Which is another kind of ignorance.

  Lord Byron

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1150, Delphi Classics

• What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Discovery, Opposites

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.28, Sheba Blake Publishing

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