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> [Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-joseph-henderson/science-owes-more-to-the-steam-engine-than-the-steam-engine-owes-to/)

[Lawrence Joseph Henderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-joseph-henderson/)

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## More by Lawrence Joseph Henderson

> [It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-joseph-henderson/it-is-a-strange-irony-that-the-principles-of-science-should-seem-to/)

[Lawrence Joseph Henderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-joseph-henderson/)

> [But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-joseph-henderson/but-weightier-still-are-the-contentment-which-comes-from-work-well/)

[Lawrence Joseph Henderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-joseph-henderson/historically-the-most-striking-result-of-kant-s-labors-was-the-rapid/)

[Lawrence Joseph Henderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-joseph-henderson/)

> [The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-joseph-henderson/the-concept-of-an-independent-system-is-a-pure-creation-of-the/)

[Lawrence Joseph Henderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-joseph-henderson/)

> [Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-joseph-henderson/science-owes-more-to-the-steam-engine-than-the-steam-engine-owes-to/)

[Lawrence Joseph Henderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-joseph-henderson/)

> [I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-joseph-henderson/i-have-always-had-the-feeling-that-organic-chemistry-is-a-very/)

[Lawrence Joseph Henderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-joseph-henderson/)

> [A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-joseph-henderson/a-difference-between-most-system-building-in-the-social-sciences-and/)

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