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Lawrence Joseph Henderson
(30 Jun 1878 - 10 Feb 1942)
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Science Quotes by Lawrence Joseph Henderson (8 quotes)
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in their evolution. In the natural sciences both theories and descriptive systems grow by adaptation to the increasing knowledge and experience of the scientists. In the social sciences, systems often issue fully formed from the mind of one man. Then they may be much discussed if they attract attention, but progressive adaptive modification as a result of the concerted efforts of great numbers of men is rare.
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Darwinian fitness is compounded of a mutual relationship between the organism and the environment. Of this, fitness of environment is quite as essential a component as the fitness which arises in the process of organic evolution; and in fundamental characteristics the actual environment is the fittest possible abode of life.
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the world, into two parties;—the philosophers and the scientists.
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and there are few occupations that give more satisfactions [sic] than masterly experimentation along the old lines of this highly specialised science.
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician’s “blank form of a universe” without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations, but also physical structure and chemical composition. Just as Newton first conclusively showed that this is a world of masses, so Willard Gibbs first revealed it as a world of systems.
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
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Somewhere between 1900 and 1912 in this country, according to one sober medical scientist [Henderson] a random patient, with a random disease, consulting a doctor chosen at random had, for the first time in the history of mankind, a better than fifty-fifty chance of profiting from the encounter.
See also:
- 30 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Henderson's birth.
- Lawrence Joseph Henderson - context of quote “Science owes more to the steam engine” - Medium image (500 x 250 px)
- Lawrence Joseph Henderson - context of quote “Science owes more to the steam engine” - Large image (800 x 400 px)