Alexander Pope Quotes about Science

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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

Alexander Pope

Science, Eels, Library

Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.247

This long disease, my life.

Alexander Pope

Life, Science, Long

"An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 131 (1735)

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Alexander Pope

Powerful, Learning, Science

Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.118

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

Alexander Pope

Science, Doubt, Littles

Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Criticism”

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

Alexander Pope

Learning, Science, Superficial Knowledge

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

Alexander Pope

God, Science, Clouds

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 99

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

Alexander Pope

Nature, Children, Science

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.403

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

Alexander Pope

Nature, Exercise, Science

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.239

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Alexander Pope

Science, Growth, Sake

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Cobham' (1734) l. 11

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

Alexander Pope

Science, Trying, Firsts

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq”, p.340