Alexander Pope Quotes About Science
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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This long disease, my life.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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