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Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry
"The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them."
Joseph Henry
Science
Discovery
Roots
"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."
Joseph Henry
Science
Common Sense
Imagination
"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 Henry
Real
Science
Thinking
"All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament."
Joseph Henry
Chance
Opinion
Results
"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 Henry
Life
Future
Eye
"Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life."
Joseph Henry
Infinite
Pity
Pathos
"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 Henry
Science
Technology
Apples
"The Logos was divine, not the divine Being himself."
Joseph Henry
Logos
Divine
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