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William Wordsworth
(7 Apr 1770 - 23 Apr 1850)
English poet who, with fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, initiated the Romantic literary era. He spent most of his life in the Lake District of England.
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Science Quotes by William Wordsworth (3)
Davy’s gone. Surely these [the storyteller, the poet and the scientist] are men of power, not to be replaced should they disappear, as one alas has done.
— William Wordsworth
Quoted in Raymond Lamont-Brown, Humphry Davy: Life Beyond The Lamp, 168.
See also: | Sir Humphry Davy (36)
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up these barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up these barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
— William Wordsworth
'The Tables Turned' (1798), The British Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1828), 356.
To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye.
[From the first issue, and for over one hundred years, this quote appeared under the masthead of Nature journal. 'Aye' is an archaic word meaning 'always'.]
[From the first issue, and for over one hundred years, this quote appeared under the masthead of Nature journal. 'Aye' is an archaic word meaning 'always'.]
— William Wordsworth
From Sonnet 34, The Poems of William Wordsworth (1849), 203.
