Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
Joseph Priestley Quotes
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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Joseph Priestley (8)
Birth: | 13th March, 1733 |
Death: | 6th February, 1804 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Chemist, Clergyman, Philosopher, Scientist, Theologian, Theorist |
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