Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about James Parkinson
James Parkinson Quotes
2 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
The study of fossil organized remains has hitherto been directed too exclusively to the consideration of the specimens themselves; and hence has been considered rather as an appendix to botany and zoology, than as (what it really is) a very important branch of geological inquiry.
James Parkinson
Source
Report...
The disease, respecting which the present inquiry is made, is of a nature highly afflictive... The unhappy sufferer has considered it as an evil, from the domination of which he had not prospect of escape.
James Parkinson
Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
James Parkinson
Born:
April 11, 1755
Died:
December 21, 1824
(aged 69)
Bio:
James Parkinson FGS was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist.
Known for:
An Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817)
Shaking Palsy Essay
James Parkinson on Wikipedia
James Parkinson works on Gutenberg Project
James Parkinson works on Wikisource
Suggest an edit or a new quote
James Parkinson Quotes
Quotes about James Parkinson
English Paleontologist Quotes
Paleontologist Quotes
18th-century Paleontologist Quotes
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes