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Edward Dyer
(Oct 1543 - 11 May 1607)
English courtier and poet whose work was published anonymously, or under initials in collections. Thus, little of it can be identified with certainty, though he had considerable fame in the last quarter of the sixteenth century. His best-known poem is “My Mynd to Me a Kingdom Is,” writing that he was the sole ruler of this kingdom with no threat from someone capturing it, and his “wealth is health” and a clear conscience.
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Science Quotes by Edward Dyer (1 quote)
My mind to me a kingdom is.
— Edward Dyer
First line of a poem (c.1585) ascribed to him, and known by that as its title. First published in William Byrd, Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety (1588). Collected, for example, John Hannah (ed.), The Courtly Poets, from Raleigh to Montrose (1856), 149-150. Also seen attributed to Edward de Vere. Also seen in similar clause as “My mind is my kingdom” opening words, of otherwise different song (1810) by Thomas Campbell, collected in Lewis Campbell (ed.), Poems of Thomas Campbell (1904), 215.
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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