Christopher Wren quotes
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“A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth”
-- Christopher WrenSource : "If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens-- where is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life". Book by Stephen Webb, p. 150, quoting "Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Astronomy, Gresham College", 2002.
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“Architecture aims at Eternity”
-- Christopher WrenSource : Sir Christopher Wren (1942). “The City Churches, Vestry Minutes and Churchwardens' Accounts: St Mary's, Ingestre, Staffordshire; All Saints' and Sessions House, Northampton; the Royal Hospital, Chelsea; the Church and Almshouses, Farley, Wiltshire; the Sheldonian Theatre and Tom Tower, Oxford; the Market House, Abingdon, Berkshire; the Bridge, St. John's College, Cambridge; the New School, Eton; Kensington Palace; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Morden and Bromley Colleges; and the Five Tracts on Architecture by Sir Chr. Wren. Drawings, Engravings and Photographs ...”
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“Choose an author as you choose a friend.”
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“The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.”
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“Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.”
-- Christopher WrenSource : James ELMES, Sir Christopher Wren (1852). “Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century”, p.100
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“In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.”
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“Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity.”
-- Christopher WrenSource : Sir Christopher Wren (1942). “The City Churches, Vestry Minutes and Churchwardens' Accounts: St Mary's, Ingestre, Staffordshire; All Saints' and Sessions House, Northampton; the Royal Hospital, Chelsea; the Church and Almshouses, Farley, Wiltshire; the Sheldonian Theatre and Tom Tower, Oxford; the Market House, Abingdon, Berkshire; the Bridge, St. John's College, Cambridge; the New School, Eton; Kensington Palace; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Morden and Bromley Colleges; and the Five Tracts on Architecture by Sir Chr. Wren. Drawings, Engravings and Photographs ...”
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“He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.”
-- Christopher WrenSource : "Conclusion of the life of Sir Christopher Wren". The Magazine of Magazines, p. 11, January 1759.
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“Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.”
-- Christopher Wren
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Source : "Almost Lover". Song by Alison Sudol (A Fine Frenzy), May 22, 2007.
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“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
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“Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.”
Source : Song: Genie On A Table Top, Album: Famous Last Words, 1993
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation
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