Josiah Gibbs Quotes

#1. The kind of people we are is more important than what we can do to improve the world; indeed being the kind of people we should and can be is the best, and sometimes the only way to improve the world.

C.S. Lewis

#2. His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.

{Gibbs's obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius}

Josiah Willard Gibbs

#3. What was wrong with a good German stride?

Juliet Grey

#4. Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Theodor Adorno

#5. There is no denying that Francis Drake was a pirate and that the enterprise he conducted four years later in Panama was highway robbery, or at best, highjacking. But it was on the scale that transforms crime into politics.

Edmund S. Morgan

#6. Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.

George Eliot

#7. Only one man lived who could understand Gibbs's papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead.

Muriel Rukeyser

#8. Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now, see! There it is, playing a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne