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Robert Frost
(26 Mar 1874 - 29 Jan 1963)
American poet.
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Science Quotes by Robert Frost (5)
And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's—and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three—the three great things.
— Robert Frost
From the Claremont Quarterly, Spring 1958. Transcript of a taped conversation between Robert Frost and British author Cecil Day Lewis which was broadcast on the BBC on 13 Sep 1957.
As a confirmed astronomer
I'm always for a better sky.
I'm always for a better sky.
— Robert Frost
'The Objection to Being Stepped On'. In Edward Connery Latham (ed.), The Poetry of Robert Frost (1971), 451.
See also: | Astronomer (13)
For, dear me, why abandon a belief
Merely because it ceases to be true.
Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt
It will turn true again, for so it goes.
Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favour.
Merely because it ceases to be true.
Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt
It will turn true again, for so it goes.
Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favour.
— Robert Frost
'The Black Cottage'. In Edward Connery Latham (ed.), The Poetry of Robert Frost (1971), 77.
Sarcastic Science, she would like to know,
In her complacent ministry of fear,
How we propose to get away from here
When she has made things so we have to go
Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show
Us how by rocket we may hope to steer
To some star off there, say, a half light-year
Through temperature of absolute zero?
Why wait for Science to supply the how
When any amateur can tell it now?
The way to go away should be the same
As fifty million years ago we came—
If anyone remembers how that was
I have a theory, but it hardly does.
In her complacent ministry of fear,
How we propose to get away from here
When she has made things so we have to go
Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show
Us how by rocket we may hope to steer
To some star off there, say, a half light-year
Through temperature of absolute zero?
Why wait for Science to supply the how
When any amateur can tell it now?
The way to go away should be the same
As fifty million years ago we came—
If anyone remembers how that was
I have a theory, but it hardly does.
— Robert Frost
'Why Wait for Science/' In Edward Connery Latham (ed.), The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged (1979), 395.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
— Robert Frost
Attributed. In Peter McDonald Slop, Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations (2004), 37.
