Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklinwas one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 January 1706
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.
In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.
There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the people who accomplished the extraordinary feat of making mankind's greatest achievements look dull, then making it impossible to repeat them.Yet what man has done man can aspire to. About light I am in the dark.
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
in eating ecology love murder vegan vegetarianism flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
Success has ruin'd many a man.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Those who laugh often never grow old.
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.
An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.