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Josiah Gilbert Holland
(24 Jul 1819 - 12 Oct 1881)
American author and poet who editted Scribner's Monthly and its successor Century Magazine (from 1870). He also wrote novels, essays and poems.
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Science Quotes by Josiah Gilbert Holland (4)
Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
Attributed.
God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
Every-Day Topics, a Book of Briefs (1882), 5.
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects: a Series of Popular Lectures (1873), 19.
Who never walks save where he see men's tracks makes no discoveries.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
In Kathrina, her Life and Mine in a Poem (1895), 220.
