
Letter to a friend, quoted in The Life of Florence Nightingale Vol. II (1914) by Edward Tyas Cook, p. 406
Context: The beginnings of science have often the appearance of chance. A felicitous accident throws a certain natural fact under the notice of an inquiring and philosophic mind. Attention is awakened and investigation provoked. Similar phenomena under varied circumstances are eagerly sought for; and if in the natural course of events they do not present themselves, circumstances are designedly arranged so as to bring about their production. The seeds of science are thus sown, and soon begin to germinate.
Letter to a friend, quoted in The Life of Florence Nightingale Vol. II (1914) by Edward Tyas Cook, p. 406
“No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown.”
Sonnet. Versöhnung. A Belief.
“A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 2e
“All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.”
1830s, Boswell's Life of Johnson (1832)
“Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown”
For a Dancer
"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
"The Quack Detector", p. 245
An Urchin in the Storm (1987)
Context: [A]s we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.