Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science.-It was that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share
Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement. — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
