Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Science, Psychology, Mind

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.235

• And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Knowledge, Science, Intelligent

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 211

• As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Education, Science, Interesting

  Oliver Goldsmith (1844). “Poems, Plays and Essays”, p.279

• If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Science, Looks, World

  Oliver Goldsmith (1823). “A history of the earth, and animated nature”, p.2

• [T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Mean, Science, Volcanoes

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.26

• Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Learning, Character

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions”, p.11

• Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Science, Men, Mind

  Oliver Goldsmith (1823). “The Vicar of Wakefield, Essays, and Poems”, p.500

• There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Believe, Science

• All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Science, Accounts, Linked

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature”, p.4

• The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Science, Sea, Sailing

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East ...”, p.120

• We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Nature, Science, Curiosity

  Oliver Goldsmith (1847). “A history of the earth and animated nature, with an intr. view of the animal kingdom tr. from the Fr. of baron Cuvier, notes [and] a life of the author by W. Irving”, p.73

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