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Robert Browning
(7 May 1812 - 12 Dec 1889)
English poet and playwright , whose best-known style is dramatic monologues. Paracelsus (1835), whose hero was a Renaissance alchemist, was one of his earliest long poems. His wife, Elizabeth Barrett, is also known for her poetry. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Science Quotes by Robert Browning (3)
Of power does Man possess no particle:
Of knowledge—just so much as show that still
It ends in ignorance on every side…
Of knowledge—just so much as show that still
It ends in ignorance on every side…
— Robert Browning
'With Francis Furini', The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning (1895), 967.
One and all
We lend an ear—nay, Science takes thereto—
Encourages the meanest who has racked
Nature until he gains from her some fact,
To state what truth is from his point of view,
Mere pin-point though it be: since many such
Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend
Come forward unabashed and haply lend
His little life-experience to our much
Of modern knowledge.
We lend an ear—nay, Science takes thereto—
Encourages the meanest who has racked
Nature until he gains from her some fact,
To state what truth is from his point of view,
Mere pin-point though it be: since many such
Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend
Come forward unabashed and haply lend
His little life-experience to our much
Of modern knowledge.
— Robert Browning
'With Francis Furini', The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning (1895), 967.
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
— Robert Browning
'Apollo and the Fates', The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning (1895), 951.
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