Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley FRSwas an 18th-century English theologian, dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and Liberal political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have a claim to the discovery...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth13 March 1733
Joseph Priestley quotes about
admiration-and-respect admiration contempt
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
oxygen air six
I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.