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Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
(26 Sep 1888 - 4 Jan 1965)
American-English poet and playwright , known more simply as T.S. Eliot, who received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Science Quotes by Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot (11 quotes)
Birth, and copulation, and death.
That’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
Birth, and copulation, and death
I’ve been born, and once is enough.
That’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
Birth, and copulation, and death
I’ve been born, and once is enough.
— Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
Sweeney Agonistes (1932), 24-5.
Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.
— Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
In Notes Toward a Definition of Culture (1948, 2014), 26.
Here is no water but only rocks
Rocks and no water and the sandy road.
Rocks and no water and the sandy road.
— Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
From poem, 'The Waste Land' (1922), in The Waste Land: And Other Poems (1958), 42.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say “this we know.”
— Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
From Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley (1964, 1989), 151.
The book [Future of an Illusion] testifies to the fact that the genius of experimental science is not necessarily joined with the genius of logic or generalizing power.
— Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
— Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
As quoted in Eileen B. Simpson, Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir (1982), 173.
The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer’s art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer’s art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
— Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
'East Coker' (1940), Verse IV. Reprinted from the Easter Number of the New English Weekly (1940).
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
— Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
Four Quartets (1943), 7.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
This was a favorite quotation of John Bahcall, who used it in his presentation at the Neutrino 2000 conference.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
This was a favorite quotation of John Bahcall, who used it in his presentation at the Neutrino 2000 conference.
— Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
Poem, 'Little Gidding,' (1942). Collected in Four Quartets (1943), Pt. 5, 39.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
— Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
The Rock (1934), part 1.
Without some kind of God, man is not even very interesting.
— Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
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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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