George Henry Lewes Quotes about Science

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

George Henry Lewes

Science, Experience, Systematic

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Physical Basis of Mind: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind”

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

George Henry Lewes

Science, Giving, Genius

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

Science is not addressed to poets.

George Henry Lewes

Science, Poet, Accounts

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.

George Henry Lewes

Science, Vision, Facts

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.

George Henry Lewes

Nature, Science, Views

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

George Henry Lewes

Science, Cells, Atoms

George Henry Lewes (1859). “The physiology of common life”

Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.

George Henry Lewes

Life, Heart, Science

"The Heart and the Brain". "Catholic world", Volume 1, Issue 5, August 1865.

Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.

George Henry Lewes

Twilight, Science, Shadow

George Henry Lewes (1867). “The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte by George Henry Lewes: Ancient philosophy”, p.84

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

George Henry Lewes

Art, Science, Purpose

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”