Benjamin Thompson quotes
-
“To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.”
-- Benjamin Thompson -
“So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.”
-- Benjamin ThompsonSource : sir Benjamin Thompson (count Rumford.) (1796). “Essays, political, economical and philosophical”, p.35
-
“Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process or contrivance, and of the causes by which they are brought about, to explain the operation and determine the precise value of every new invention. This fixes as it were the latitude and longitude of each discovery, and enables us to place it in that part of the map of human knowledge which it ought to occupy. It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries.”
-- Benjamin Thompson
-
Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
-
“There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.”
-
Source : Charles George Gordon (1881). “Colonel Gordon in Central Africa, 1874-1879: With a Portrait; and Map of the Country Prepared Under Colonel Gordon's Supervision”
-
Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.305, Harvard University Press
You may also like:
-
Andre-Marie Ampere
Physicist -
Antoine Lavoisier
Chemist -
Dmitri Mendeleev
Chemist -
Heinrich Hertz
Physicist -
Hermann von Helmholtz
Physician -
Humphry Davy
Chemist -
James Clerk Maxwell
Physicist -
James Hutton
Geologist -
John Dalton
Chemist -
Joseph Black
Chemist -
Joseph Henry
Physicist -
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Chemist -
Joseph Priestley
Philosopher -
Lord Kelvin
Physicist -
Michael Faraday
Scientist -
Nicholas Kurti
Physicist -
Robert Boyle
Philosopher -
Robert Bunsen
Chemist -
Rudolf Clausius
Physicist