George Henry Lewes Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Science is the systematic classification of experience.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Experience, Systematic

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Physical Basis of Mind: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind”

• A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Cells, Atoms

  George Henry Lewes (1859). “The physiology of common life”

• Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.

  George Henry Lewes

  Twilight, Science, Shadow

  George Henry Lewes (1867). “The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte by George Henry Lewes: Ancient philosophy”, p.84

• In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Science, Purpose

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.

  George Henry Lewes

  Life, Heart, Science

  "The Heart and the Brain". "Catholic world", Volume 1, Issue 5, August 1865.

• Science is not addressed to poets.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Poet, Accounts

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

  George Henry Lewes

  Writing, Science, Library

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.

  George Henry Lewes

  Nature, Science, Views

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Vision, Facts

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Giving, Genius

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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