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Thomas Campbell
(27 Jul 1777 - 15 Jun 1844)
Scottish poet.
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Science Quotes by Thomas Campbell (4 quotes)
Is this your triumph—this your proud applause,
Children of Truth, and champions of her cause?
For this has Science search’d, on weary wing,
By shore and sea—each mute and living thing!
Children of Truth, and champions of her cause?
For this has Science search’d, on weary wing,
By shore and sea—each mute and living thing!
— Thomas Campbell
'Pleasures of Hope', Part 2. In Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, et al, The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White (1830), 121.
O leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.
— Thomas Campbell
'The Beech-Tree's Petition' (Written in Germany, 1800. First published in The Morning Chronicle). The Pleasures of Hope: with Other Poems and The Pleasures of Memory (1804), 97.
O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander’d there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
To waft us home the message of despair?
— Thomas Campbell
'Pleasures of Hope', Part 2. In Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, et al, The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White (1830), 121.
When Science from Creation's face
Enchantment's veil withdraws
What lovely visions yield their place
To cold material laws.
Enchantment's veil withdraws
What lovely visions yield their place
To cold material laws.
— Thomas Campbell
'To the Rainbow.' In Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, et al, The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White (1830), 153.
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) -- 
