Joseph Priestley Quotes

Joseph Priestley — English Scientist born on March 13, 1733, died on February 06, 1804

Joseph Priestley FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and Liberal political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have a claim to the discovery... (wikipedia)

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.

Joseph Priestley Quotes

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