James Smithson
James Smithson
James Smithson, MA, FRSwas an English chemist and mineralogist. He was the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
men research members
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men,
men greatness found
It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.
law planets subjects
The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.
happiness ignorance loss
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.