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Thomas Henry

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Welsh surgeon and apothecary (1734-1816)

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  • Just William Diary 1996
  • William at Christmas
  • Mans place in nature & other essays.
  • History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania
  • Account of the Medicinal Virtues of Magnesia Alba

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Quotes

  • To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.
  • Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
  • The fact is he made a prodigious blunder in commencing the attack, and now his only chance is to be silent and let people forget the exposure. I do not believe that in the whole history of science there is a case of any man of reputation getting himself into such a contemptible position.
  • I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school. Nevertheless I know that I am, in spite of myself, exactly what the Christian would call, and, so far as I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel.
  • The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.
  • Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

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date of birth
1734-10-26
date of death
1816-06-18
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