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Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
(25 May 1803 - 18 Jan 1873)
British novelist and politician who is remembered for his historical novels such as The Last Days of Pompeii (1834). While remaining active as a member of parliament (as a liberal member representing St. Ives, Huntingdonshire) he produced many novels, plays, and poems.
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Science Quotes by Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (11 quotes)
A man … reflects, tests his observation by inquiry, and becomes the discoverer, the inventor; enriches a science, improves a manufacture, adds a new beauty to the arts, or, if engaged in professional active life, detects, as a physician, the secret cause of disease—extracts truth, as a lawyer, from contradictory evidence—or grapples, as a statesman, with the complicated principles by which nations flourish or decay. In short, … a man will always be eminent according to the vigilance with which he observes, and the acuteness with which he inquires.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Upon becoming Honorary President (18 Jan 1854). Printed in Address of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., to the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh (1854), 6.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Caxtoniana (1875), 303.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
In The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), Vol. 1, 78.
Fate laughs at probabilities.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
In Eugene Aram: A Tale (1832), 96.
In science, address the few; in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few. But the few and the many are not necessarily the few and the many of the passing time: for discoverers in science have not un-often, in their own day, had the few against them; and writers the most permanently popular not unfrequently found, in their own day, a frigid reception from the many. By the few, I mean those who must ever remain the few, from whose dieta we, the multitude, take fame upon trust; by the many, I mean those who constitute the multitude in the long-run. We take the fame of a Harvey or a Newton upon trust, from the verdict of the few in successive generations; but the few could never persuade us to take poets and novelists on trust. We, the many, judge for ourselves of Shakespeare and Cervantes.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners (1863), Vol. 2, 329- 30.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners (1863), Vol. I, 169.
It was a dark and stormy night.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
First sentence of the narrative in Paul Clifford (1830, 1833), 15.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the lute of Orpheus: it moves stones, it charms brutes.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
In The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), Vol. 1, 78.
Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382:34.
The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
From Zanoni (1842), 6.
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell—Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Spoken by fictional character Zanoni in novel, Zanoni (1842), 6.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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