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Elbert (Green) Hubbard
(19 Jun 1856 - 7 May 1915)
American writer and philosopher whose career began as a freelance newspaper writer in Chicago (1872-76). By the early 1890s he had written three novels. In 1895 he founded his Roycroft Shop in East Aurora, New York, where he revived old handicrafts, especially artistic printing and produced The Philistine, a monthly magazine. He had 500 various workers there by 1910, including metalsmiths, leathersmiths, bookbinders, and funiture craftmen. Collectors still value Roycraft furniture.
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Science Quotes by Elbert (Green) Hubbard (7)
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
The Book of Business (1913), 95.
Business, to be succcessful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
The Book of Business (1913), 56.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Philistine: A Periodical of Protest (Sep 1906), 23, No. 4, 97.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Attributed.
The Church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard and H. P. Taber, Philistine: A Periodical of Protest (Nov 1908), 27, No. 6, 184.
See also: | Science And Religion (76)
The probable fact is that we are descended not only from monkeys but from monks.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911). In Preachments: Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings (1998), Part 4, 438.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Philistine: A Periodical of Protest (Sep 1902), 15, No. 4, 92.
