Themes -- Knowledge

• Contexts -- Science

• Letter 1.3 and note ("Father's dying injunction")
• Letter 1.3 and note ("Intellectual eye")
• Letter 4.6 and note ("Acquirement of the knowledge which I sought") [1831 only]
• Letter 4.6 and note ("Do you share my madness") [1831 only]
• Letter 4.8 and note ("Knowledge")
• Letter 4.8 and note ("Curiosity")
• 1.1.4 and note ("Investigating")
• 1.1.6 and note ("Natural philosophy")
• 1.1.6 and note ("Science")
• 1.1.6 and note ("The moral relations of things") [1831 only]
• 1.1.7 and note ("Secret stores of knowledge")
• 1.1.7 and note ("Not to speak of a final cause") [1831 only]
• 1.1.8 and note ("The latter")
• 1.1.10 and note ("Equal interest and utility")
• 1.1.10 and note ("Incomprehensible to me")
• 1.1.10 and note ("Mathematics")
• 1.2.4 and note ("Professor of natural philosophy")
• 1.2.6 and note ("Partly from curiosity")
• 1.2.8 and note ("Destiny")
• 1.3.1 and note ("Pursued it for its own sake")
• 1.3.2 and note ("Continual food for discovery and wonder")
• 1.3.3 and note ("If cowardice or carelessness did not restrain")
• 1.3.4 and note ("How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge")
• 1.3.5 and note ("Concerning the manner in which I should employ it")
• 1.3.8 and note ("Pursuit of knowledge")
• 1.4.5 and note ("To undertake a voyage")
• 1.4.8 and note ("Capable of observing outward objects")
• 1.6.11 and note ("Shake my faith")
• 1.7.1 and note ("Curiosity")
• 1.7.1 and note ("Lawless devices")
• 2.1.2 and note ("I ardently wished to extinguish that life")
• 2.2.2 and note ("If our impulses were confined")
• 2.4.3 and note ("I ardently desired")
• 2.5.6 and note ("Sorrow only increased with knowledge")
• 2.5.6 and note ("Of what a strange nature is knowledge")
• 2.5.6 and note ("Other lessons were impressed upon me even more deeply")
• 2.7.5 and note ("Increase of knowledge ... was")
• 2.9.6 and note ("The eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me")
• 3.2.1 and note ("The most distinguished natural philosophers")
• 3.6.2 and note ("Motion of every muscle ... extremities of my limbs")
• Walton 1 and note ("Senseless curiosity")
• Walton 2 and note ("Corrected and augmented")
• Walton 6 and note ("Many of my unfortunate comrades have already found a grave")
• Walton 8 and note ("Ignorant")