Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Science

• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Science

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

• The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sarcasm, Science, Race

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Science, Tree

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Science, Genius

• Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Science, Hands, Use

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Science, Wind, Law

• Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Science, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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