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George Henry Lewes
(18 Apr 1817 - 28 Nov 1878)
English philosopher and naturalist.
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Science Quotes by George Henry Lewes (3)
A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.
— George Henry Lewes
The Physiology of Common Life (1860), 297.
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.
— George Henry Lewes
The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte (1867), lxxxiv.
See also: | Biology (39) | Daylight (2) | Ghost (2) | Metaphysics (11) | Mystery (26) | Principle (26) | Question (41) | Shadow (4)
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
— George Henry Lewes
The Physical Basis of Mind (1877), 4.
