Edmund Clerihew Bentley
(10 Jul 1875 - 30 Mar 1956)

English writer. Popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, who invented the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.

Science Quotes by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (4)

Professor Dewar
Is a better man than you are,
None of you asses
Can condense gases.
— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
E. C. Bentley, Biography for Beginners (1905)
See also:  |  Poem (39)

Sir Christopher Wren
Said, 'I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul's.'
— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Biography for Beginners, 1905

Sir Humphrey [sic] Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School. [An example of a clerihew, an irregular form of biographical humorous verse, devised by the author.]
— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
'Sir Humphrey [sic] Davy', E. C. Bentley, Biography for Beginners (1905). Schoolboy comment as quoted in Alan L. Mackay, A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991), 26.
See also:  |  Biography (115)  |  Sodium (4)

The only occasion when Comte
Is known to have romped
Was when the multitude roared 'Vive La Philosophie Positive!'
— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Biography for Beginners (1905)
See also:  |  Isidore Comte (2)


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