Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.


An Apology for Idlers. - Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)


There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for ...

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for ...

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for ...

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for ...