Joseph Priestley

[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at…

— Joseph Priestley

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before,…

— Joseph Priestley

“But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann. [G. W.…

— Joseph Priestley

The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding…

— Joseph Priestley

It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to…

— Joseph Priestley

It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to…

— Joseph Priestley

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

— Joseph Priestley

We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they…

— Joseph Priestley

Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a…

— Joseph Priestley

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his…

— Joseph Priestley

The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast…

— Joseph Priestley

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

— Joseph Priestley

Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and…

— Joseph Priestley

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

— Joseph Priestley

It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has…

— Joseph Priestley

Let us not... contend about merit , but let us all be intent on forwarding the common enterprize , and equally enjoy…

— Joseph Priestley

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

— Joseph Priestley

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever…

— Joseph Priestley

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

— Joseph Priestley

Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth…

— Joseph Priestley

As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many…

— Joseph Priestley

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank…

— Joseph Priestley

It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition,…

— Joseph Priestley

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then…

— Joseph Priestley

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just…

— Joseph Priestley