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Lewis Carroll
(27 Jan 1832 - 14 Jan 1898)

English mathematician, logician, novelist and photographer.


Science Quotes by Lewis Carroll (6)

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master—that's all.'
— Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871). In Roger Lancelyn Green (ed.), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1971), 190.
See also:  |  Definition (32)

'Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to do it.'
— Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1896), 40.
See also:  |  Do (10)  |  Dodo (2)  |  Explain (3)

'Can you do Addition?' the White Queen said. 'What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?'
'I don't know', said Alice. 'I lost count'.
'She can't do Addition', the Red Queen interrupted.
— Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871). In Roger Lancelyn Green (ed.), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1971), 226.
See also:  |  Mathematics (226)

I see nobody on the road,' said Alice.
'I only wish I had such eyes,' the King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light
— Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass. In Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain (1986), 206.
See also:  |  Astronomy (68)  |  Observation (147)

Of course they answer to their names?' the Gnat remarked carelessly.
'I never knew then to do it,' [said Alice.]
'What's the use of them having names,' said the Gnat, 'if they won't answer to them?'
— Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass.
See also:  |  Day (7)  |  Moon (37)  |  Night (7)  |  Nomenclature (54)  |  Sun (43)

Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here? '
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, ' said the Cat.
— Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1898), 53.
See also:  |  Cat (4)  |  Way (4)


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