Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Some guns were fired to give notice that the departure of the balloon was near. ... Means were used, I am told,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He's the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image