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Robert Aris Willmott
(30 Jan 1809 - 27 May 1863)
English writer.
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Science Quotes by Robert Aris Willmott (8 quotes)
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, and science depend on it. Newton traced back his discoveries to its unwearied employment. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, and heals diseases; without it Taste is useless, and the beauties of literature are unobserved; as the rarest flowers bloom in vain, if the eye be not fixed upon the bed.
— Robert Aris Willmott
Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature (1855), 37.
Education is the apprenticeship of life.
— Robert Aris Willmott
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 77:17.
Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.
— Robert Aris Willmott
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 120:22.
Genius is nourished from within and without.
— Robert Aris Willmott
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 120:45.
Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction.
— Robert Aris Willmott
Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature (1855), 67.
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.
— Robert Aris Willmott
Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature (1855), 53.
The discovery of one star is the promise of another.
— Robert Aris Willmott
Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature (1855), 151.
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.
— Robert Aris Willmott
Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature (1855), 129.
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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