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Charles Lamb
(10 Feb 1775 - 27 Dec 1834)
English essayist.
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Science Quotes by Charles Lamb (5 quotes)
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
— Charles Lamb
Letter to George Dyer (20 Dec 1830). In Charles Lamb and Thomas Noon Talfourd (Ed.), Works: Including His Most Interesting Letters, (1867), 168.
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
— Charles Lamb
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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
— Charles Lamb
In 'The Old and the New Schoolmaster', The Essays of Elia (1823, 1835), 53.
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
— Charles Lamb
Letter to Thomas Manning (2 Jan 1810), collected in The Works of Charles Lamb: The Letters of Charles Lamb (1851), Vol. 1, 155.
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?
— Charles Lamb
Letter to Coleridge (23 Oct 1802). In Edwin W. Marrs, Jr. (ed.), The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb (1976), Vol. 2, 81-2.
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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