John Joseph Griffin Quotes

John Joseph Griffin was an English chemist and publisher.

✵ 22. January 1802 – 9. June 1877

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“I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.”

John Joseph Griffin

Chemical Recreations (7th Edition, 1834) Preface xiv

“I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. "Orders of merit," said he, "were the proper rewards of the military" (the desolators of the world in all ages). "Men of science are better left to the applause of their own hearts." Most learned legislator! Most liberal cotton-spinner! Was your title the proper reward of military prowess? Pity, you hold not the dungeon-keys of an English Inquisition! Perhaps Science, like Creeds, would flourish best under a little persecution.”

John Joseph Griffin

Chemical Recreations (7th Edition, 1834) "The Romance of Chemistry" p232

“Reader! Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of its inclosure. Imagine the additions made where the projecting limbs had fairly and far emerged beyond the confines of the garment. Imagine the boy still growing, and the clothes, mended all over, now more than ever in want of mending”

John Joseph Griffin

such is chemistry, and such its nomenclature.
Chemical Recreations (7th Edition, 1834) "The Romance of Chemistry" p189

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