John William Draper

Quotes

• “Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.”
• “Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.”
• “Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia, the man who, of all others, has exercised the greatest influence upon the human race—Mohammed… To be the religious head of many empires, to guide the daily life of one third of the human race, may perhaps justify the title of a messenger of God.”
• “"But, though the Church hath evermore from Holy Writ affirmed that the earth should be a wide-spread plain bordered by the waters, yet he [Magellan] comforted himself when he considered that in the eclipses of the moon the shadow cast of the earth is round; and as is the shadow, such, in like manner, is the substance." It was a stout heart - a heart of triple brass - which could thus, against such authority, extract unyielding faith from a shadow.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1811-05-05 ) May 5, 1811, St. Helens , Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

Died

January 4, 1882 (1882-01-04) (aged 70), Hastings-on-Hudson , New York, United States

Alma mater

University College London , University of Pennsylvania

Known for

Photochemistry , Draper point , Grotthuss–Draper law

Awards

Rumford Medal (1875)

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