Quotes by Lewis, Wyndham

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of thi >>

When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventi >>

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbi >>

Quotations about Science and Scientists

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; >>

Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher >>

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the ea >>

The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of decency. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

Lewis, Wyndham