“Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.”

Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971).

Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 52.

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Essays and Studies (1875), p. 162.

Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
Context: It has been said that "Nothing worth the proving can be proved, nor yet disproved." True though this may have been in the past, it is true no longer. The science of our century has forged weapons of observation and analysis by which the veriest tyro may profit. Science has trained and fashioned the average mind into habits of exactitude and disciplined perception, and in so doing has fortified itself for tasks higher, wider, and incomparably more wonderful than even the wisest among our ancestors imagined. Like the souls in Plato's myth that follow the chariot of Zeus, it has ascended to a point of vision far above the earth. It is henceforth open to science to transcend all we now think we know of matter and to gain new glimpses of a profounder scheme of Cosmic law.

Source: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

Source: What Is This Thing Called Science? (Third Edition; 1999), Chapter 3, Experiment, p. 27.