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We are like the explorers of a great continent who have penetrated to its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.

H. Bentley Glass

The fruits [of scientific knowledge] are of undeniable importance, and before we eat, it might be well for us to see upon which side of the tree of good and evil they are borne.

H. Bentley Glass

Science is not only to know, it is to do, and in the doing it has found its soul.

H. Bentley Glass

Human power, which mounted slowly indeed through the eons of prehistory and somewhat more rapidly after the advent of the sword and pen, has gathered momentum with logarithmic sweep since the dawn of modern science. Today it seems to be rocketing into outer space with the incredible energy of atomic fission.

H. Bentley Glass

H. Bentley Glass

H. Bentley Glass

Born: January 17, 1906

Died: January 16, 2005 (aged 98)

Bio: Hiram Bentley Glass was an American geneticist and noted columnist. Born in China to missionary parents, he attended college at Baylor University in Texas. He then furthered his education at the University of Texas, where he received his Ph.D.

Known for:

Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859 (1959)
Science and Ethical Values (1965)
Science and liberal education (1960)

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