Robert Aris Willmott Quotes about Science

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Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.

Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.

Robert Aris Willmott

Science, Lamps, Genius

Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.23

The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.

Robert Aris Willmott

Science, Men, Curves

Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction.

Robert Aris Willmott

Stars, Science, Glasses

Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals diseases, carries on the business of the world. Without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature unobserved.

Robert Aris Willmott

Science, Bridges, Skills