Famous quotes containing the words political, science and/or students:
“Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A complacent old Don of Divinity
Used to boast of his daughters virginity:
They must have been dawdlin,
The students of Magdalen
It couldnt have happened at Trinity.”
—Anonymous.
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