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Henry Ward Beecher
(24 Jun 1813 - 8 Mar 1887)
American clergyman and lecturer.
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Science Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher (3)
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896), 106.
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
In Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), 75.
See also: | Civilization (42) | Community (11) | Control (11) | Dangerous (8) | Electricity (30) | Natural Law (4) | Obtain (5) | Servant (3) | Triumph (5) | Water (35) | Wild (2) | Wind (11)
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In Thomas Wallace Knox, Life and Work of Henry Ward Beecher: An Authentic, Impartial and Complete (1887), 274.
