Joseph Henry quotes
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“The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts.”
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“The person who thinks there can be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or very ignorant of religion.”
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“The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present.”
-- Joseph HenrySource : Joseph Henry (1886). “Scientific Writings”
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“The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.”
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“Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.”
-- Joseph HenrySource : Joseph Henry (1972). “The Princeton years: January 1841 - December 1843”
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“All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.”
-- Joseph HenrySource : "John Inglesant". Book by Joseph Henry, 1881.
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“Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.”
-- Joseph HenrySource : "John Inglesant". Book by Joseph Henry Shorthouse, 1881.
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“The Logos was divine, not the divine Being himself.”
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“The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.”
-- Joseph HenrySource : "A Memorial of Joseph Henry".
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“A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.”
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“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.”
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Source : "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.
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“I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.”
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“Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.”
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“Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.”
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