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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Oliver Goldsmith

Science, Psychology, Mind

Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.235

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

Oliver Goldsmith

Science, Men, Mind

Oliver Goldsmith (1823). “The Vicar of Wakefield, Essays, and Poems”, p.500

[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth.

Oliver Goldsmith

Mean, Science, Volcanoes

Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.26

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

Oliver Goldsmith

Nature, Science, Curiosity

Oliver Goldsmith (1847). “A history of the earth and animated nature, with an intr. view of the animal kingdom tr. from the Fr. of baron Cuvier, notes [and] a life of the author by W. Irving”, p.73

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

Oliver Goldsmith

Science, Accounts, Linked

Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature”, p.4

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

Oliver Goldsmith

Science, Sea, Sailing

Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East ...”, p.120

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Oliver Goldsmith

Knowledge, Science, Intelligent

'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 211

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Oliver Goldsmith

Education, Science, Interesting

Oliver Goldsmith (1844). “Poems, Plays and Essays”, p.279

If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.

Oliver Goldsmith

Science, Looks, World

Oliver Goldsmith (1823). “A history of the earth, and animated nature”, p.2

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.

Oliver Goldsmith

Philosophy, Believe, Science

Oliver Goldsmith Quotes about Science

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