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William Shakespeare
(baptised 26 Apr 1564 - 23 Apr 1616)
English dramatist and poet who remains the world's most-performed playwright. His surviving works include 38 plays and 154 sonnets. Among his poems, he wrote two long narrative poems.
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Science Quotes by William Shakespeare (2)
By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death
Will seize the Doctor too.
Will seize the Doctor too.
— William Shakespeare
Cymbeline (1609, publ. 1623), Act 5, Scene 5. In Charles Knight (ed.), The Works of William Shakspere (1868), 605.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
— William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar act 1, scene 2, lines 139-141.
See also: | Astrology (7)
Quotes by others about William Shakespeare (3)
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Autobiography
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A million million spermatozoa,
All of them alive:
Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah
Dare hope to survive.
And among that billion minus one
Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne—
But the One was Me.
All of them alive:
Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah
Dare hope to survive.
And among that billion minus one
Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne—
But the One was Me.
'Fifth Philosopher's Song', Leda (1920),33.
In fact a favourite problem of [Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.
Letter to Herbert Spencer (3 Aug 1861). In L. Huxley, The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (1903), Vol. 1, 333.
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