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Joseph Rudyard Kipling
(30 Dec 1865 - 18 Jan 1936)
British novelist and poet who was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is famous for his books, The Jungle Book (1894) and Just So Stories (1902), but also wrote hundreds of short stories and many hundreds of pages of verse. His most-loved poem, If (1910), begins, "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...")
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Science Quotes by Joseph Rudyard Kipling (3)
Doctors have been exposed—you always will be exposed—to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies—the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.
— Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Doctors (1908), 28-9.
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
— Joseph Rudyard Kipling
'The female of the species' (1911). In Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Inclusive Edition 1885-1918 (1919), Vol. 2, 166.
The motto of all the mongoose family is, 'Run and find out'.
— Joseph Rudyard Kipling
'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi', The Jungle Book (1894), 124.
