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Lord Dunsany
(24 Jul 1878 - 25 Oct 1957)
English-Irish writer and dramatist known for his works of inventive fantasies in worlds of his ingenious creation.
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Science Quotes by Lord Dunsany (4 quotes)
I know of the boons that machinery has conferred on men, all tyrants have boons to confer, but service to the dynasty of steam and steel is a hard service and gives little leisure to fancy to flit from field to field.
— Lord Dunsany
In 'Romance of Modern Stage', National Review (1911). Quoted in Edward Hale Bierstadt,
Dunsany the Dramatist (1917), 119.
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
— Lord Dunsany
In 'Weeds and Moss', My Ireland (1937), Chap. 19, 186.
Man is a small thing, and the night is large and full of wonder.
— Lord Dunsany
In Plays of Gods and Men (1917), 102.
Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does not take Creation seriously, for I remember that He sat in Space with all His work in front of Him and laughed.
— Lord Dunsany
In The Hashish Man, collected in E.F. Bleiler (ed.), Gods, Men and Ghosts: The Best Supernatural Fiction of Lord Dunsany (1972), 158.
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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