Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richardswas an industrial and environmental chemist in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work in sanitary engineering, and experimental research in domestic science, laid a foundation for the new science of home economics. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth3 December 1842
CountryUnited States of America
Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
The well-educated young woman of 1950 will blend art and sciences in a way we do not dream of; the science will steady the art andthe art will give charm to the science. This young woman will marry--yes, indeed, but she will take her pick of men, who will by that time have begun to realize what sort of men it behooves them to be.
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life.
The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.
We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.
A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.
I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.
I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.
A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy ...
The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.
The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.