When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches.


The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont (ed. 1854)


When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with ...

When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with ...

When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with ...

When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with ...