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William Wickenden

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[Wikipedia] William Wickenden was an early Anglo-American Baptist minister, co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and signer of the Providence Compact. Wickenden Street in Providence marks where he originally settled in the seventeenth century and is named in his honor.

Quotes by William Wickenden

Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their…

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Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups…

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Cooperating

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The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the…

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Ancient

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Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To…

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It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for…

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