Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
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Father no prophet's laws I seek, - Thy laws in Nature's works appear - I own myself corrupt and weak, Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear.George Gordon Byron
When Newton saw an apple fall, he found ... A mode of proving that the earth turnd round In a most natural whirl, called gravitation And thus is the sole mortal who could grapple Since Adam, with a fall or with an apple.
George Gordon Byron
Since my young days of passion - joy or pain Perchance my heart and harp have lost a string - And both may jar.
George Gordon Byron
What exile from himself can flee To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life - the demon Thought.
George Gordon Byron
The hell of waters where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture.
George Gordon Byron
The mind can make Substance, and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
George Gordon Byron
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