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In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.

Joel Dorman Steele

God has no idlers in his world. Each atom has its use. There is not an extra particle in the entire universe.

Joel Dorman Steele

It [astronomy] is, above all others, a science that cultivates the imagination. Yet its theories and distances are based upon rigorous mathematical demonstrations. Thus the study has at once the beauty of poetry and the exactness of Geometry.

Joel Dorman Steele

In the presence of such weird and wondrous beauty [the night heavens], the tenderest sentiments of the heart are aroused. A feeling of awe and reverence, of softened melancholy mingled with a thought of God, comes over us, and awakens the better nature within us.

Joel Dorman Steele

Joel Dorman Steele

Joel Dorman Steele

Born: May 14, 1836

Died: May 25, 1886 (aged 50)

Bio: Joel Dorman Steele was an American educator. He and his wife Esther were important textbook writers of their period, on subjects including American history, chemistry, human physiology, physics, astronomy, and zoology.

Known for:

Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry (1869)
Popular Physics
Fourteen Weeks in Physics (1878)

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