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Robert Stevenson,
(8 Jun 1772 - 12 Jul 1850)
Scottish civil engineer.
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Science Quotes by Robert Stevenson, (7 quotes)
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
— Robert Stevenson,
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits probably Arboreal.
— Robert Stevenson,
'Pastoral'. Memories and Portraits (1887, 1915), 7.
He sows hurry and reaps indigestion.
— Robert Stevenson,
In 'An Apology For Idlers', The Living Age (1877), 134, 436.
I never know whether to be more surprised at Darwin himself for making so much of natural selection, or at his opponents for making so little of it.
— Robert Stevenson,
Selections from His Notebook. Reprinted in Memories and Portraits, Memoirs of Himself and Selections from His Notebook (1924, 2003), 184.
The sun is not a-bed, when I
At night upon my pillow lie;
Still round the earth his way he takes,
And morning after morning makes.
At night upon my pillow lie;
Still round the earth his way he takes,
And morning after morning makes.
— Robert Stevenson,
In poem, 'The Sun’s Travels', A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), 36
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
— Robert Stevenson,
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We inhabit a dead ember swimming wide in the blank of space, dizzily spinning as it swims, and lighted up from several million miles away by a more horrible hell-fire than was ever conceived by the theological imagination. Yet the dead ember is a green, commodious dwelling-place; and the reverberation of this hell-fire ripens flower and fruit and mildly warms us on summer eves upon the lawn.
— Robert Stevenson,
In Lay Morals, collected in Works: Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson: Sketches, Criticism, Etc. (1898) Vol. 22, 552.
See also:
- 8 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Stevenson's birth.
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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