Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by James Smithson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British scientist James Smithson.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

James Smithson was an English chemist and mineralogist. He published numerous scientific papers for the Royal Society during the late 1700s as well as assisting in the development of calamine, which would eventually be renamed after him as "smithsonite". He was the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name.

British - Scientist | 1765 - June 27, 1829

Source: Wikipedia

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.