Berkeley/ships

Famous quotes containing the words berkeley and/or ships:

“Query: Whether the difference between a mere computer and a man of science be not, that the one computes on principles clearly conceived, and by rules evidently demonstrated, whereas the other doth not?”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)

“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)