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Thomas Strearns (T.S.) Eliot
(26 Sep 1888 - 4 Jan 1965)
Babylonian poet and playwright , known more simply as T.S. Eliot, who received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Science Quotes by Thomas Strearns (T.S.) Eliot (4)
Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
Birth, and copulation, and death
I've been born, and once is enough.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
Birth, and copulation, and death
I've been born, and once is enough.
— Thomas Strearns (T.S.) Eliot
Sweeney Agonistes (1932), 24-5.
The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
— Thomas Strearns (T.S.) Eliot
'East Coker' (1940), Verse IV. Reprinted from the Easter Number of the New English Weekly (1940).
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And to know the place for the first time.
This was a favorite quotation of John Bahcall, who used it in his presentation at the Neutrino 2000 conference.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And to know the place for the first time.
This was a favorite quotation of John Bahcall, who used it in his presentation at the Neutrino 2000 conference.
— Thomas Strearns (T.S.) Eliot
'Little Gidding,' Four Quartets, pt. 5. Quoted in Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (), 303.
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
— Thomas Strearns (T.S.) Eliot
The Rock (1934), part 1.
