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Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Science

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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

English and Other Critical Essays Chartism, Chapter II

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

Heart, Science, Law

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.198

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Funny, Science, History

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Science, Math, Hands

Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.46, Lulu.com

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

Science, Swim, Done

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Science, Feelings, Artistic

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Science, Thinking, Magic In The World

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.32

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

Science, Men

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

Spiritual, Lying, Science

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.55, CUP Archive

The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

Wise, Science, Heaven

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.341, Lulu.com

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Science, Men, Thinking

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.20

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

Home, Science, Heaven

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

Education, Science, Fool

We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

Science, Fire, Clouds

Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.7

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

Wise, Science, Important

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Chartism, II

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

Wise, Lying, Science

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

Science, Giving, Romance

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

Witty, Math, Science

Chartism ch. 2 (1839) See Disraeli 38

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