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I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and there are few occupations that give more satisfaction than masterly experimentation along the old lines of this highly specialised science.

Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the world, into two parties;—the philosophers and the scientists.

Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

Lawrence Joseph Henderson

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Science has finally put the old teleology to death. Its dismembered spirit, freed from vitalism and all material ties, immortal, alone lives on, and from such a ghost, science has nothing to fear.

Lawrence Joseph Henderson

No philosopher's or poet's fancy, no myth of a primitive people has ever exaggerated the importance, the usefulness, and above all the marvelous beneficence of the ocean for the community of living things.

Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Born: June 3, 1878

Died: February 10, 1942 (aged 63)

Bio: Lawrence Joseph Henderson was a physiologist, chemist, biologist, philosopher, and sociologist. He became one of the leading biochemists of the early 20th century.

Known for:

The Fitness of the Environment (1913)
The order of nature (1917)
On the Social System: Selected Writings

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