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Jonathan Swift
(30 Nov 1667 - 19 Oct 1745)
Irish satirist and essayist.
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Science Quotes by Jonathan Swift (3)
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my Travels.
Letter to Pope, dated 29 Sep 1725, when Arbuthnot was seriously ill
Letter to Pope, dated 29 Sep 1725, when Arbuthnot was seriously ill
— Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (ed.) John Nichols (ed.) The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, (1808) , Vol. 11, 298.
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
— Jonathan Swift
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727) reprinted in The Battle of the Books, and Other Short Pieces (1886), 189.
The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
— Jonathan Swift
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift (1803), 388.
Quotes by others about Jonathan Swift (1)
I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously, have lost all before they arrive at my age—& remain like Swift's Stulbruggs—cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:—whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge.
In Vivien Noakes, Edward Lear: the Life of a Wanderer (1969), 22.
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