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
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
When in doubt, don't.
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.
It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox
Receive before you write, but write before you pay.
Joke went out, and brought home his fellow, and they two began a quarrel.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Many a Meal is lost for want of meat.
Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.
The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.
Kate would have Thomas, no one blame her can: Tom won't have Kate, and who can blame the Man?
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Keep thou from the Opportunity, and God will keep thee from the Sin.