Death Quote by Joseph Priestley

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

— Joseph Priestley

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

— Joseph Priestley

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

— Joseph Priestley

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

— Joseph Priestley

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

— 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 give him…

— Joseph Priestley

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

— Joseph Priestley

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

— Joseph Priestley

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

— 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 the worship…

— Joseph Priestley