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Oscar Wilde
(16 Oct 1854 - 30 Nov 1900)
Irish-English author and playwright remembered especially for his wit whose writings include plays, numerous short stories, poems and a novel. Of his plays, The Importance of being Earnest remains the most popular.
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Science Quotes by Oscar Wilde (4)
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything
— Oscar Wilde
'Olivia at the Lyceum', Dramatic Review (30 May 1885). In Reviews (1908), 29.
See also: | Invention (84)
Science is the record of dead religions.
— Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde and Alvin Redman (ed.), 'Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young', The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde (1959), 108.
See also: | Science And Religion (76)
The Governor was strong upon
The Regulation Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific fact:
And twice a day the Chaplain called,
And left a little tract.
The Regulation Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific fact:
And twice a day the Chaplain called,
And left a little tract.
— Oscar Wilde
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1901), 6.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
— Oscar Wilde
In Lily Splane, Quantum Consciousness (2004), 309
See also: | Unexpected (3)
