James Smithson Quotes

• It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

  James Smithson

  Greatness, Men, Found

  James Smithson, John Robin McDaniel Irby (1879). “The Scientific Writings of James Smithson”

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• Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.

  James Smithson

  Men, Research, Members

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• 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.

  James Smithson

  Happiness, Ignorance, Loss

  James Smithson, John Robin McDaniel Irby (1879). “The Scientific Writings of James Smithson”

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• The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.

  James Smithson

  Law, Planets, Particles

  Smithsonian Institution, James Smithson (1966). “Knowledge Among Men: Eleven Essays on Science, Culture, and Society Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of James Smithson”

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