Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Popewas an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 May 1688
science growth sake
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
powerful learning science
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
art philosophy science
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
nature science night
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
art science genius
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
art science light
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
science doubt littles
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
science trying firsts
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...
science superficial-knowledge eels
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
pain pride science
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
life science long
This long disease, my life.
science eels library
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
draw peculiar plan
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
last lay
Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.