W. H. Auden Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

  W. H. Auden

  Happiness, Math, Science

• When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

  W. H. Auden

  Mistake, Science, Drawing

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "The Poet and the City"

• Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

  W. H. Auden

  Science, Wish, Events

• Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, Science, Simple

  A CertainWorld "Behaviorism" (1970)

• And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

  W. H. Auden

  Fall, Science, Garden

  'Look, Stranger!' (1936) no. 1

• The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Mistake, Science

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "The Poet and the City"

• Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Science, Technology

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("The Virgin & The Dynamo"), (p. 62), 1962.

• Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

  W. H. Auden

  Science, Skills, Degrees

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