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Victor Hugo
(26 Feb 1802 - 22 May 1885)
French novelist and poet.
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Science Quotes by Victor Hugo (3)
An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted.
— Victor Hugo
Histoire d' un Crime (written 1851-52, published 1877), conclusion, chap. 10. Trans. T. H. Joyce and Arthur Locker (1886), 413.
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
— Victor Hugo
Quoted in Pierre Biquard, Frederic Joliot-Curie: The Man and his Theories (1961), trans. Geoffrey Strachan (1965), 168.
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
— Victor Hugo
Things of the Infinite: Intellectual Autobiography, trans. L. O'Rourke (1907).
