Henry Augustus Rowland Quote

Discoveries have their origin not only in the presence of men of exceptional genius in the world, but in a true and overwhelming progress of science which marches forward to the understanding of the universe, irrespective of the efforts of any single individual to promote or retard it.


The Physical Papers of Henry Augustus Rowland, The Electrical and Magnetic Discoveries of Faraday (p. 638)


Discoveries have their origin not only in the presence of men of exceptional genius in the world, but in a true and overwhelming progress of science...

Discoveries have their origin not only in the presence of men of exceptional genius in the world, but in a true and overwhelming progress of science...

Discoveries have their origin not only in the presence of men of exceptional genius in the world, but in a true and overwhelming progress of science...

Discoveries have their origin not only in the presence of men of exceptional genius in the world, but in a true and overwhelming progress of science...