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Charles Lamb
(10 Feb 1775 - 27 Dec 1834)
English essayist.
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Science Quotes by Charles Lamb (4)
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
— Charles Lamb
Letter to George Dyer (20 Dec 1830). In Charles Lamb and Thomas Noon Talfourd (Ed.), Works: Including His Most Interesting Letters, (1867), 168.
In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
— Charles Lamb
'The Old and the New Schoolmaster', in Elia (1823), 111.
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
— Charles Lamb
Letter to Thomas Manning (2 Jan 1810). In Charles Lamb and Thomas Noon Talfourd (Ed.), Works: Including His Most Interesting Letters, (1867), 88.
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?
— Charles Lamb
Letter to Coleridge (23 Oct 1802). In Edwin W. Marrs, Jr. (ed.), The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb (1976), Vol. 2, 81-2.
