Joseph Priestley
He is credited with the discovery of oxygen and several other gases.
Quotes by Joseph Priestley
Experiment is the best test of truth in science.
Life's greatest joy is in serving others.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
Wit is educated insolence.
The beauty of science is its humility.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Liberty is the right to do as we wish, provided we infringe not the equal rights of others.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The human spirit is the true measure of all things.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
The purpose of life is to matter, to count, to stand for something.
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
The more we know of the works of God, the more we must admire them.
The English are a nation of philosophers, and they are the only nation in the world that has produced a Newton.
The knowledge of nature is the knowledge of God.
The more we know, the more we are sensible of our ignorance.
The air, which we breathe, is not a simple substance, but a compound of several different kinds of air.