Dismal Science

Famous quotes containing the words dismal and/or science:

    My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.
    James Boswell (1740–1795)

    Curiosity engenders both science and scandal.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)