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William Shakespeare Quotes about Science

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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

William Shakespeare
Life, Death, Science
Cymbeline V.5

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

William Shakespeare
Fake People, Art, Science
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

William Shakespeare
Science, Atoms, Ease
'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [246]

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare
Love, Strong, Science
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.203

I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.

William Shakespeare
Brother, Party, Science
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.

William Shakespeare
Nature, Science, Medicine
William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser (2003). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Kings, Science
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

And nature must obey necessity.

William Shakespeare
Nature, Science
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 225

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.

William Shakespeare
Strong, Eye, Science
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Science, Evil
William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.208, Palgrave Macmillan

As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

William Shakespeare
Truth, Science, Moon
William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.263, Bloomsbury Publishing

The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

William Shakespeare
Science, Wind, Water
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.292

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

William Shakespeare
Flower, Science, Sea
Sonnet 65

There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Man, more divine, the master of all these, Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Science, Men

Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound; And through this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

William Shakespeare
Fall, Science, Moon
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Science, Light
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

I'll teach you differences.

William Shakespeare
Teaching, Science, Differences
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.892, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

William Shakespeare
Book, Fate, Science
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

William Shakespeare
Science, Moon, Night
William Shakespeare, Kathleen Ermitage (2002). “The Tempest”, p.56, Barron's Educational Series

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Science, Night
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.10

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