Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklinwas one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 January 1706
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.
Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?
Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.
I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.
In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.
There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the people who accomplished the extraordinary feat of making mankind's greatest achievements look dull, then making it impossible to repeat them.Yet what man has done man can aspire to. About light I am in the dark.
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
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Success has ruin'd many a man.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Those who laugh often never grow old.
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.