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Ogden Nash
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Science Quotes by Ogden Nash (7 quotes)
God in His wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
And then forgot to tell us why.
— Ogden Nash
'The Fly' (1942), Good Intentions (1943), 220.
I hereby bequeath to the Bide-a-Wee Home all people who have statistics to prove that a human
Is nothing but a combination of iron and water and potash and albumen.
That may very well be the truth
But it’s just like saying that a cocktail is nothing but ice and gin and vermouth.
Is nothing but a combination of iron and water and potash and albumen.
That may very well be the truth
But it’s just like saying that a cocktail is nothing but ice and gin and vermouth.
— Ogden Nash
From 'Lines in Dispraise of Dispraise', Hard Lines (1931), 40.
I may not be proud of being a human
I object to having attention called to my iron and water and potash and albumen.
In the first place, it’s undignified,
And in the second place, nothing by it is signified.
I object to having attention called to my iron and water and potash and albumen.
In the first place, it’s undignified,
And in the second place, nothing by it is signified.
— Ogden Nash
From 'Lines in Dispraise of Dispraise', Hard Lines (1931), 40.
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall
I’ll never see a tree at all.
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall
I’ll never see a tree at all.
— Ogden Nash
In 'Song of the Open Road', Happy Days (1933), 66.
People who go around analyzing
Are indeed very tanalizing.
Are indeed very tanalizing.
— Ogden Nash
From 'Lines in Dispraise of Dispraise', Hard Lines (1931), 40.
Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long;
I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.
I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.
— Ogden Nash
From poem 'Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours', in magazine New Yorker (4 Apr 1959).
Some primal termite knocked on wood.
And tasted it, and found it good.
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
And tasted it, and found it good.
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
— Ogden Nash
Good Intentions (1942), 261. In Gary William Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature (2000), 261.
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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