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Samuel Butler
(baptised 14 Feb 1612 - 1680)
English poet and satirist who wrote Hudibras, which continued to be reprinted through the centuries since his death.
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Science Quotes by Samuel Butler (3 quotes)
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Samuel Butler, poet (1612-1680)
Colorization © todayinsci, from plate in Samuel Butler and George Bohn (ed.), Hudibras (1859), Vol. 1. (Terms of Use) (source)
Colorization © todayinsci, from plate in Samuel Butler and George Bohn (ed.), Hudibras (1859), Vol. 1. (Terms of Use) (source)
All the inventions that the world contains,
Were not by reason first found out, nor brains;
But pass for theirs who had the luck to light
Upon them by mistake or oversight.
Were not by reason first found out, nor brains;
But pass for theirs who had the luck to light
Upon them by mistake or oversight.
— Samuel Butler
Under 'Butler's Poems: Miscellaneous Thoughts', in Samuel Johnson (ed.), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper(1810), Vol. 8, 227.
He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no;
That would, as soon as e’er she shone straight,
Whether ‘twere day or night demonstrate;
Tell what her d’ameter to an inch is,
And prove that she’s not made of green cheese.
That would, as soon as e’er she shone straight,
Whether ‘twere day or night demonstrate;
Tell what her d’ameter to an inch is,
And prove that she’s not made of green cheese.
— Samuel Butler
This hairy meteor did announce
The fall of sceptres and of crowns.
The fall of sceptres and of crowns.
— Samuel Butler
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- Large color picture of Samuel Butler, Poet (1612-1680) - Half Body (800 x 950 px)
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.
(1987) -- 
