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W.S. Gilbert
(18 Nov 1836 - 22 May 1911)
English dramatist who collaborated as writer, with Arthur Sullivan, for fourteen comic Savoy Operas. Among the best-known are The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance.
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Science Quotes by W.S. Gilbert (2 quotes)
How quaint the way of paradox—
At common sense she gaily mocks.
At common sense she gaily mocks.
— W.S. Gilbert
In libretto of The Pirates of Penzance, collected in Original Plays (1907), 328.
I’m very good at integral and differential calculus,
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
— W.S. Gilbert
In The Pirates of Penzance (1879), Act 1.
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) -- 
