Ebenezer Kinnersley Quotes

Ebenezer Kinnersley was a scientist, inventor and lecturer, specializing in the investigation of electricity. Wikipedia

✵ 30. November 1711 – 4. July 1778

Ebenezer Kinnersley: 1 quote0 likes

Ebenezer Kinnersley Quotes

“As the Knowledge of Nature tends to enlarge the human Mind, and give us more noble, more grand, and exalted Ideas of the AUTHOR of Nature, and if well pursu'd, seldom fails producing something useful to Man.”

Ebenezer Kinnersley

Advertisement for his Course of Experiments in Electricity, 1751.

Similar authors

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg photo

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg137

German scientist, satirist None

Francis Bacon photo

Francis Bacon295

English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and auth… None

Benjamin Franklin photo

Benjamin Franklin183

American author, printer, political theorist, politician, p… None

René Descartes photo

René Descartes47

French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist None

Isaac Newton photo

Isaac Newton171

British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern c… None

Thomas Paine photo

Thomas Paine262

English and American political activist None

Pierre Beaumarchais photo

Pierre Beaumarchais11

French playwright diplomat and polymath None

George Washington photo

George Washington186

first President of the United States None

Thomas Jefferson photo

Thomas Jefferson456

3rd President of the United States of America None

Montesquieu photo

Montesquieu34

French social commentator and political thinker None